It has taken a decade, but Booker Prize-winning Canadian author Yann Martel is back on the fiction lists. The mega-bestseller “Life of Pi” made the Spanish-born, Canadian-raised Martel a superstar. He ...

The best-selling novelist explains why his new retelling of Homer’s epic offers the ideal antidote to the age of Trump Yann Martel’s writing studio, where he sits while we talk over Zoom, is a mere ...

While large language models like ChatGPT may seem really smart, they lack key capabilities along with many important dimensions, Yann LeCun — executive chairman of Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs ...

Early literary epics, such as Virgil’s Aeneid, often served as boosterism in disguise – of monarchs, dynasties, nations. The Iliad, Homer’s poem about the Trojan War, and the earliest surviving work ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. By his own admission, Yann Martel is not a prolific writer. It has been 10 years since the Canadian ...

Meta AI veteran Yann LeCun raises $1 billion for AMI, betting on world models to rival today’s text-based AI systems. Yann LeCun, formerly chief AI scientist at Meta, has raised more than $1 billion ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Speaking to the faux-antique verses of the Psoad are footnoted comments by the fictional scholar who ...

After 25 years, are you tempted to re-read Life of Pi ? No, no, never. I feel like I’ve been there and I’ve done that. First of all, when you write a book, you read it a thousand times; and also, I ...

Royal Visit to the U.S. OpenAI Trial Voting Rights Act Supreme Court Deals Blow to Voting Rights Act LIVE Justices Strike Down Louisiana Voting Map The justices ruled that a Louisiana voting map was ...

A spiritual-cum-zoological odyssey about an Indian boy who spends months stranded in the middle of the ocean with a 600-pound tiger. A metafictional allegory that uses a donkey and howler monkey to ...

Professor Yann LeCun is the chief scientist for the tech giant’s powerful Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) which is responsible for “pushing the boundaries of AI to create a more connected world”. In ...

Yann Martel’s new novel Son of Nobody contains two narratives: a lost epic about the Trojan War and a personal tragedy that plays out in the book’s footnotes. The two protagonists are Psoas, a common ...