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language
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How AI is reshaping science and society
ChatGPT and the Future of AI: The Deep Language Revolution Terrence J. Sejnowski The MIT Press (2024) Some…
Why the words we use in physics obscure the true nature of reality
Growing up in the US during the oil embargo of the early 1970s, I was bombarded by public…
Islands are rich with languages spoken nowhere else
Analysis of nearly 1,200 languages spoken on islands shows that islands play a crucial part in fostering language…
LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English
Wang, S. et al. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2403.18105 (2024). Hofmann, V., Kalluri, V. R., Jurafsky, D. & King,…
AI can turn text into sign language – but it’s often unintelligible
AI-generated avatars that appeared to translate English text to American Sign Language https://signllm.github.io/#demo Artificial intelligence has been used…
Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought
Barham, L. & Everett, D. Semiotics and the origin of language in the Lower Palaeolithic. J. Archaeol. Method…
Do elephants have names for each other?
Elephants seem to use personalized calls to address members of their group, providing a rare example of naming…
every bird in South Africa now has an isiZulu name
The African pitta’s isiZulu name unothingo — meaning rainbow — is a reference to its brightly coloured plumage.Credit:…
How QWERTY keyboards show the English dominance of tech
Last week, MIT Technology Review published an excerpt from a new book, The Chinese Computer, which talks about…
Meta AI system is a boost to endangered languages — as long as humans aren’t forgotten
Machine translation works well for widely spoken languages — but languages with a smaller digital footprint struggle.Credit: Zhang…