A few days ago, I watched a video of myself talking in perfect Chinese. I’ve been studying the language on and off for only a few years, and I’m far from fluent. But there I was, pronouncing each ...

Sanjib Chaudhary chanced upon StoryWeaver, a multilingual children’s storytelling platform, while searching for books he could read to his 7-year-old daughter. Chaudhary’s mother tongue is Kochila ...

Facebook’s parent company is inviting researchers to pore over and pick apart the flaws in its version of GPT-3 Meta’s AI lab has created a massive new language model that shares both the remarkable ...

Technology is changing the way that we approach education. Increased globalisation and digitalisation mean the world is more connected now than ever before. This has had a specific impact on language ...

Ubiquitous video technology and social media have given deaf people a new way to communicate. They’re using it to transform American Sign Language. Scroll This is how a deaf person in America would ...

Google announced a breakthrough technology called CALM that speeds up large language models (like GPT-3 and LaMDA) without compromising performance levels. Larger Training Data Is Better But Comes ...

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A woman named Boa Sr was the last link to a 65,000-year-old pre-Neolithic culture on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. When she died in 2010, the Bo language died, too, becoming extinct. If ...

The use of artificial intelligence is exploding around the world, but the technology’s language models are primarily trained in English, leaving many speakers of other languages behind. By Sara Ruberg ...

I have shared many columns about how teachers might want to consider—and how they might not want to consider—using artificial intelligence in the classroom. You can see many of those previous posts ...

ln a remote rural town in New Zealand, an Indigenous couple is challenging what AI could be and who it should serve. This story is the fourth and final part of MIT Technology Review’s series on AI ...

Spanish and STEAM teacher Rachelle Dene Poth shares how she uses invigorating tech lessons to immerse students in language and culture. Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12.