If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

After the advent of ChatGPT, the use of large language models (LLMs) has become increasingly widespread worldwide. LLMs are ...

Understanding how humans and AI or robotic agents can work together effectively requires a shared foundation for ...

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These days, it's not unusual to hear stories about people falling in love with artificial intelligence. People are not only using AI to solve equations or plan trips, they are also telling chatbots ...

Researchers have found two important building blocks of human speech in wild chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives. A pair of studies finds that chimp communication includes both rhythmic ...

Charlemagne supposedly said that to have another language is to possess a second soul. As AI quietly standardizes legal language across industries, it may be creating exactly that: a second soul for ...

It is a deep question, from deep in our history: When did human language as we know it emerge? A new survey of genomic evidence suggests our unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ...

Kenyan entrepreneur Elly Savatia won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for his app ...

Two new studies hint at the evolutionary roots of human language. The studies found that chimps use rhythmic structures and complex call combinations to communicate. This next story could not be ...