From paintings and photographs to coins and credit cards, we are constantly surrounded by symbolic artifacts. The mental representation of symbols -- objects that arbitrarily represent other objects - ...

Picture a tray. On the tray is an assortment of shapes: Some cubes, others spheres. The shapes are made from a variety of different materials and represent an assortment of sizes. In total there are, ...

In our recent book Constructing Organizational Life, we propose a new way of understanding and analyzing the social world that we believe is particularly relevant to understanding social innovation.

The symbolic approach to corporate culture is used to build the company brand while organizing and defining the workplace. Physical symbols range from name tags to awards that build company identity.

In February, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google‘s DeepMind AI research lab, warned that throwing increasing amounts of compute at the types of AI algorithms in wide use today could lead to diminishing ...

A new technical paper titled “Towards Efficient Neuro-Symbolic AI: From Workload Characterization to Hardware Architecture” was published by researchers at Georgia Tech, UC Berkeley, and IBM Research.

Symbolic triggers shape human behavior in profound ways, influencing everything from global mourning to acts of violence. The death of Princess Diana triggered worldwide grief, as she embodied the ...

As AI systems have advanced rapidly, with large language models (LLMs) at the center, every tech executive has experienced their limits—when AI systems struggle with complex problem-solving, produce ...