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As independent AI researcher Simon Willison wrote in a post distinguishing serious AI-assisted development from casual “ vibe ...

Human language is structured to minimize mental effort by using familiar, predictive patterns grounded in lived experience.

Deaf President Now! is a powerful documentary from directors Nyle DiMarco and Davis Guggenheim that can be streamed with an ...

Even as some instructors remain fervently opposed to chatbots, other writing and English professors are trying to improve ...

The project for which Hulsebos received the grant is called DataLibra, which runs from 2024 to 2029. Over those five years, ...

In a previous language column, I described some ways in which grammatical and spelling conventions that are typically ...

O n Tuesday, researchers at Stanford and Yale revealed something that AI companies would prefer to keep hidden. Four popular ...

Very few people get to invent a new language that is heard by millions: DW talked to linguist Paul Frommer about how he developed the "Avatar" aliens' language. "It's been quite a remarkable event in ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

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Generative AI models can carry on conversations, answer questions, write stories, produce source code, and create images and videos of almost any description. Here's how generative AI works, how it's ...