Let’s embrace what AI can do. What we must not forget is the human side of language. It adapts, understands and adds meaning.

The way human users perceive their interactions with AI systems is, in part, influenced by deliberate choices made by the designers. From depictions of Alan Turing’s early computational machines to ...

In 2025 we will see AI and machine learning leveraged to make real progress in understanding animal communication, answering a question that has puzzled humans as long as we have existed: “What are ...

Vasco Pedro had always believed that, despite the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), getting machines to translate languages as well as professional translators do would always need a human in the ...

Researchers develop TweetyBERT, an AI model that automatically decodes canary songs to help neuroscientists understand the neural basis of speech.

People are starting to “talk like AI,” according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. While teachers and business leaders complain about people using AI chatbots to write and communicate — and more and more ...

Generative AI is here, but we don’t quite know what to do with it. Across both industry and the military, enthusiasm has outpaced results. Companies report rising rates of abandoned AI projects, while ...

Source: ChatGPT modified by NostaLab. A couple of years ago, I wrote about something I called the techno-agora. It's a way of thinking about how large language models were beginning to reshape group ...

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 ...