If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?
As local languages continue to disappear, Associate Professor Natsuko Nakagawa from the Faculty of Humanities is dedicated to ...
Language allows humans to convey thoughts and ideas—it is a central means of communication. However, language also influences ...
Staff Writer Mary Piacente sits down with Shrikar Lekkala, senior in LAS and founder of Phraze — an AI translation software ...
As it has for everything else, AI has now come for the accent. Companies like Krisp and Sanas sell real-time accent ...
Babies start processing language before they are born, a new study suggests. A research team in Montreal has found that newborns who had heard short stories in foreign languages while in the womb ...
For many tasks in corporate America, it’s not the biggest and smartest AI models, but the smaller, more simplistic ones that are winning the day.

The Age of De-Skilling

But the real puzzle isn’t whether de-skilling exists—it plainly does—but rather what kind of thing it is. Are all forms of de ...
Some of today’s most capable AI systems are refined versions of large language models (LLMs) that predict text on the basis ...
A survey of reasoning behaviour in medical large language models uncovers emerging trends, highlights open challenges, and introduces theoretical frameworks that enhance reasoning behaviour ...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Monday called for Congress to make English the official language of the United States in response to comments made by Bad Bunny, who urged Americans to learn ...
Have you ever called your colleague a "hairy-nose wombat", a "giggling goose", or yelled "hell yeah" across the office? If you were a politician and used one of those expressions in parliament, you ...