Gary Marcus, professor emeritus at NYU, explains the differences between large language models and "world models" — and why he thinks the latter are key to achieving artificial general intelligence.

Mark Stevenson has previously received funding from Google. The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new ...

Executives at leading AI labs say that large language models like those from OpenAI and Big Tech firms risk becoming commoditized in 2025. Last week, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released R1, a reasoning ...

What the firm found challenges some basic assumptions about how this technology really works. The AI firm Anthropic has developed a way to peer inside a large language model and watch what it does as ...

Language isn’t always necessary. While it certainly helps in getting across certain ideas, some neuroscientists have argued that many forms of human thought and reasoning don’t require the medium of ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...