UI philosophy professor launches AI reasoning challenge

On Tuesday, Sept. 2, University of Idaho professor Bert Baumgaertner kicked off the fall semester’s Malcolm Renfrew Interdisciplinary Colloquium with “Easy for Humans, Hard for AI: Metaphor Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus.”  Baumgaertner is a professor of philosophy and studies cognitive science and the ways belief spreads. In his presentation, he…