The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

As I fall farther down the large language model (LLM) rabbit hole, I'm becoming more interested in how LLMs may be redefining not just what we know but also how we know it. These models—trained on ...

Data science is concerned about data: methods for creating, storing, retrieving, analyzing, interpreting, and visualizing data. Data science continues to evolve as one of the most promising and ...

As an undergraduate, Barry Smith studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Oxford, before earning his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1976. Currently, he holds the position of ...

Series Abstract: This masterclass consists of three paired lectures and discussions on the cutting edge of research in the philosophical foundations of general relativity, our best current theory of ...