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

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

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 ...

To find out, Sharma and his team—including Kenton Murray, a research scientist in the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, and Ziang Xiao, an assistant professor of computer science—first ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. It seems that every day brings a new headline about the burgeoning ...

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 ...

A new study suggests that the NOVA1 gene may have been a key player in the evolution of human language. By Carl Zimmer Scientists have long struggled to understand how human language evolved. Words ...

Dr. Son Nguyen is the cofounder & CEO of Neurond AI, a company providing world-class artificial intelligence and data science services. Artificial intelligence technologies are changing faster than ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

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 ...