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 ...

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 ...

In at least one crucial way, AI has already won its campaign for global dominance. An unbelievable volume of synthetic prose is published every moment of every day—heaping piles of machine-written ...

Claims that artificial intelligence (AI) is on the verge of surpassing human intelligence have become commonplace. According to some commentators, rapid advances in large language models signal an ...

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 ...

As I sat down with Jim Wilson, global managing director of thought leadership and technology at Accenture and co-author of the newly updated book Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI, ...

The AI craze has hit researchers trying to understand how our brains process language. The latest technique is to try and link the output of Large Language Models (or LLMs like ChatGPT) to the brain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also ...