Tomas Silva

For computers to understand what they read, they need to know how the world works. Take, for example, the following story from the ROCStories corpus: Gage was riding his bike.…

The LLM Sandwich: the architecture slice by slice Computers that claim to “understand” language still lack world models—faithful representations of how objects and events relate to each other. As I…

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

In my last post, I shared some telling examples where computers failed to understand what they read. The errors they made were bizarre and fundamental. But why? Computers are clearly missing something,…

AI has a dirty secret: it doesn’t understand language. Take the recent question-answering system called Aristo. When it came out, early articles proclaimed that the system was “ready for high school science, maybe even college” and called it “as…

What if computers could understand what they read? I don’t mean “understand” in the shallow sense of recent machine learning wizardry, where systems extract statistical patterns from millions of documents…