Spinning stories out of nothing is a deeply human impulse. As a neurologist, I see my patients do it all the time.

Traditionally, chemical reactions have been described as one-line "equations" in which substrates, say A and B, convert purposefully but rigidly into a desired product, say C. Naturally, it has been ...

Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the ...