Can a computer learn a language the way a child does? A recent study sheds new light on this question. The researchers advocate for a fundamental revision of how artificial intelligence acquires and ...

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining ...

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 ...

Researchers find large language models process diverse types of data, like different languages, audio inputs, images, etc., similarly to how humans reason about complex problems. Like humans, LLMs ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

Teaching fewer words to large language models might help them sound more human. By Oliver Whang When it comes to artificial intelligence chatbots, bigger is typically better. Large language models ...

In 2022, the natural language processing (NLP) market was estimated to be worth $15.7 billion, and by 2027, it is anticipated to reach a value of over $49 billion. NLP is a field of artificial ...

Since lockdown, everyone has had to rely heavily on digital technologies: be it Zoom work meetings and lengthy email chains, gaming and streaming services for entertainment, or social media platforms ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered ...

At the turn of the 20th century, a famous horse named Clever Hans toured Germany. The horse stunned crowds as his trainer demonstrated the animal's alleged ability to understand German, tell time and ...

While early language models could only process text, contemporary large language models now perform highly diverse tasks on ...