The Latest Breaking News from Noam Chomsky

Images, undated and uncaptioned, include lines from Lolita written on woman’s body and show Bill Gates and Noam Chomsky

The disgraced financier had an idea for an interview series called ‘Strange Bedfellows’, but none of the stars he fantasised about featuring seem to be aware of its existence

As Donald Trump signed the bill approving the release of Epstein files, new documents revealed Noam Chomsky's close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal

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New York Times reports on letters by Ehud Barak, Woody Allen and others written for Epstein’s 63rd birthday

As meaning-makers, we use spoken or signed language to understand our experiences in the world around us. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT (using large language models) call into question the very notion of how to define “meaning.”

In 1948, the founder of information theory, Claude Shannon, proposed modelling language in terms of the probability of the next word in a sentence given the previous words. These types of probabilistic language models were largely derided, most famously by linguist Noam Chomsky: “The notion of ‘probability of a sentence’…

Books about Banksy and by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé were removed, and one of the owners detained

We need a ‘coalition of the willing’ capable of bringing together those in Europe and the global south. Britain should facilitate that, says former Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell

Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s most famous and respected intellectuals, will be 96 years old on Dec. 7, 2024. For more than half a century, multitudes of people have read his works in a variety of languages, and many people have relied on his commentaries and interviews for insights…