At the turn of the 20th century, a famous horse named Clever Hans toured Germany. The horse stunned crowds as his trainer demonstrated the animal's alleged ability to understand German, tell time and ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Science shows that dogs learn to form mental representations of words, shedding light on why they often seem to grasp our conversations. Nothing quite captures the heart like videos of dogs appearing ...

University of Nevada professor Michael Wilson explains three computational linguistics fields and the applications of those ...

New research shows AI can analyze language with skills rivaling human experts, challenging long-held ideas about intelligence ...

This article is part of Demystifying AI, a series of posts that (try to) disambiguate the jargon and myths surrounding AI. It’s very easy to misread and overestimate achievements in artificial ...

While we’d like to think that we intuitively understand language (we are after all, the “creators” of language), an analysis of how LLMs apparently “create” “meaning” suggests otherwise. Understanding ...

The tech behind Parsey McParseface is now available to help developers create apps, like intelligent assistants and chatbots, that understand human language Google’s intelligent cloud developer tools ...

Veena D. Dwivedi receives funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Brock University. Brock University provides funding as a ...

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 ...

For years, it was believed that the lack of interaction between cats and their owners was due to their inability to communicate. However, a recent study has shown that these felines do understand what ...