Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human. By Oliver Whang Lawmakers and Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, agreed that artificial intelligence should be ...

You can order Gnome Chomsky, the Garden Noam for $195, plus shipping. A ‘What Would Noam Do?’ mug can be yours for $15. ‘Colorless green ideas sleep furiously,’ an oft-repeated demonstration of how ...

In a British Columbia university radio show, Chomsky has now responded to Chris Knight’s new book, 'Decoding Chomsky, science and revolutionary politics'. Submitted by hedgehog on October 1, 2016 ...

There are determining events, especially when we’re young and formulating our sense of the world: Times when we learn how to take ourselves, where to stand, how to move forward in a fresh way. For me, ...

Noam Chomsky in New York, 2010 (James Leynse/Corbis Historical/Getty Images) Few American linguists were puzzled when they saw the title of Randy Allen Harris’s book about events in their discipline ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences category has gone to Noam Chomsky 'for his unparalleled contributions to the study of human language,' in the ...

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

FEW disciplines are so strongly associated with a single figure: Einstein in physics and Freud in psychology, perhaps. But Noam Chomsky is the man who revolutionised linguistics. Since he wrote ...