The father of modern linguistics delivered the first of several public lectures at UCLA on Monday as part of a weeklong lecture series. Noam Chomsky, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts ...

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 ...

According to noted linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky, many linguists claim that language does not exist. On Friday, Chomsky, a Penn alumnus, delivered a lecture titled “Should we study ...

Chomsky treats language as cognition, not communication. He says it enables us to think in unusually clear and powerful ways, planning ahead, comparing and evaluating our ideas and so on. But if so, ...

Many people feel comforted and understood by animals. In that sense, they communicate with them. What they can't do, however, is talk with an animal. Whereas all animals, ourselves included, ...

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 ...

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We spend the hour with French filmmaker Michel Gondry, the director of a highly unusual new film, “Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?” It is an animated representation of Gondry’s conversations with the ...

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 ...