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

People write with personal style and individual flourishes that set them apart from other writers. So does artificial intelligence, including top programs like Chat GPT, new Johns Hopkins ...

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

Scientists modeled human-like communication skills and the transfer of knowledge between AIs — so they can teach each other to perform tasks without a huge amount of training data. When you purchase ...

WHEN DEEP BLUE, a chess computer, defeated Garry Kasparov, a world champion, in 1997 many gasped in fear of machines triumphing over mankind. In the intervening years, artificial intelligence has done ...

Arizona State University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. ChatGPT is a hot topic at my university, where faculty members are deeply concerned about academic integrity, while ...

There are many things that technology can do well when it comes to monitoring body language. A computer can detect the slightest microexpression — something that even highly trained experts don’t ...

Humans' unique language capacity was present at least 135,000 years ago, according to a survey of genomic evidence. As such, language might have entered social use 100,000 years ago. It is a deep ...

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

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 ...

Sperm whale calls are far more complex than we thought – and could be an animal communication system that is the closest thing to human language yet discovered. The claim is based on an analysis of ...