Recently, several technology companies have briefed me and professed to use a new type of artificial intelligence (AI) technology: machine reasoning. If you haven’t heard the term yet, just wait.

Although AI models have grown incredibly sophisticated in a short amount of time, there are still a few tasks—even simple ones such as reasoning—of which humans remain the undisputed masters. But ...

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, which explores how to computationally simulate (or surpass) humanlike intelligence. While some AI techniques (such as expert systems) use ...