For thousands of years, philosophers have debated the purpose of language. Plato believed it was essential for thinking. Thinking “is a silent inner conversation of the soul with itself,” he wrote. Many modern scholars have advanced similar views. Beginning in the 1960s, Noam Chomsky, a linguist at MIT, argued that we use language for reasoning … Read more
This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked trusted source proofread OK! by Chris Packham, Phys.org Atomic resolution structural model of bacteriophage T4. Credit: Dr. Victor Padilla-Sanchez, Ph.D. drvictorpadillasanchez.com, CC BY-SA 4.0 × close to Atomic resolution structural model of bacteriophage T4. Credit: Dr. Victor Padilla-Sanchez, Ph.D. drvictorpadillasanchez.com, CC BY-SA 4.0 There’s a lot … Read more
WASHINGTON — Congressional language aimed at accelerating work on a future NASA space telescope has the side effect of forcing the agency to disband a team it created to guide the mission’s early development. NASA created two committees last year to support early development of the Habitable Worlds Observatory, a large space telescope recommended by … Read more
Meta’s artificial intelligence chief said the large language models that power generative AI products like ChatGPT would never achieve the ability to reason and plan like humans, as he focused instead on a radically alternative approach to creating ‘superintelligence’ in machines . Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at the social media giant that owns Facebook … Read more