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The professor was awarded a “Genius Grant” for her work encoding “very trivial knowledge that you and I share about the world that machines don't.” Reading time 9 minutes Yejin Choi declined the call ...

The concept of intelligence is fascinating and complex. While formal IQ tests are a structured way to measure cognitive abilities, they don’t tell the whole story. A person's intelligence isn't just ...

People often talk about very high intelligence quotient (IQ) scores, often referred to as genius IQ scores, but what exactly ...

The term genius refers to someone with extraordinary intellectual or creative power. Psychologists in the early 1900s were the first to measure and define genius in terms of a person's intelligence ...

Four year old Heidi Hankins is all over the news. According to the Daily Mail, she "has an IQ of 159—only one point below Albert Einstein's—and has become one of the youngest members of Mensa." As her ...