We all take language for granted, yet we rely upon it throughout our lives in order to perform a range of functions. Imagine how you would accomplish all the things you might do, even in a single day, ...

Language is one of the things that characterize human existence, but there is debate about its function: whether it is a 'tool for thinking' or a 'tool for communication.' In a paper published in the ...

In the past few years, artificial intelligence models of language have become very good at certain tasks. Most notably, they excel at predicting the next word in a string of text; this technology ...