The Prototype: Chatbots Struggle With Analogies

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at the ways chatbots struggle to think like humans, how nanoparticles might connect brains and computers, a better way to vaccinate for food poisoning and more. You can sign up to get The Prototype in your inbox here.

One thing that humans are very good at is the ability to reason by analogy–the ability to look at a bunch of different situations or sets of facts and generalize from them. This kind of thinking is vital in a number of…