Tomas Silva

This is the third and final piece in a series examining the most effective uses of LLMs and why a more holistic approach to AI combined with different forms of…

This is the second piece in a series examining the most effective uses of LLMs and why a more holistic approach to AI combined with different forms of reasoning is…

This is the first piece in a series examining the most effective uses of LLMs and why a more holistic approach to AI that combines formal, efficient reasoning systems with…

There have been many versions of how Elemental Cognition was founded cropping up recently, and I am flattered by the interest but also excited to share my personal story. It’s…

Perils of doing mission-critical research with a Large Language Model Recently, a NY law firm was in the news for the wrong reasons – the firm’s lawyer used ChatGPT to…

In an earlier post, we discussed the recent progress of large language models (LLMs). We discussed how they are impressively fluent and creative, but struggle with precise and correct reasoning.…

The power of adding precision and logic to Large Language Models. The popularity of ChatGPT has brought large language models (LLMs) and generative AI into the popular vernacular. LLMs generate…

To realize their full potential, they must be augmented with logical reasoning.  As demonstrated by the recent release of ChatGPT, the evolution of language models over the past few years…

We are thrilled that Elemental Cognition’s latest research – Braid: Weaving Symbolic and Neural Knowledge Into Coherent Logical Explanations – was selected for publication for the AAAI-22 Conference. In light…

When Elemental Cognition CEO David Ferrucci started the company, he had a big vision in mind. “If computers could understand what they read, the impact on humanity would be enormous,”…

When we read or engage in dialog, we don’t just memorize and index words; we develop “mental models.” These are rich structures that our minds use to model, or represent,…