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A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By using cutting-edge evolutionary methods, researchers found that languages ...

OpenAI rolled out their updated Codex app for Mac yesterday and, among other things, they shipped a native computer use tool ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

Patrick van Eyck (SFS ’28) intended to study Russian or Persian at Georgetown University. After three semesters of classes, he instead earned proficiency in Spanish, which he learned attending middle ...

Speech sounds like it is made of words, but that impression has more to do with what’s in our heads than with what comes out of our mouths. In natural speech, there are no clear acoustic boundaries ...

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...

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Brain–computer interfaces are beginning to truly "understand" Chinese. The INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI, in collaboration with Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University, the National Center ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...