by admin | Jun 9, 2025 | AI, AI News, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, language, large language models, LLM, News, The Conversation
As meaning-makers, we use spoken or signed language to understand our experiences in the world around us. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT (using large language models) call into question the very notion of how to define “meaning.”... by admin | Feb 28, 2025 | AI, AI News, artificial intelligence, grammar, language, LLMs, News
Generative AI systems like large language models and text-to-image generators can pass rigorous exams that are required of anyone seeking to become a doctor or a lawyer. They can perform better than most people in Mathematical Olympiads. They can write halfway decent... by admin | Feb 20, 2025 | Africa, Kiswahili, language, MultiChoice, News, Newsletter, Showmax, South Africa, streaming, TV News, UI
Showmax being a proud product of South African heritage, has long championed accessibility for its African customers, made clear by the streamer’s latest bit of news. Kiswahili is now supported by the streamer’s UI on both the TV and mobile apps, offering a new avenue... by admin | Nov 11, 2024 | AI, Aliens, language, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation
In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do forwards, written with circular symbols. As she discovers various clues,... by admin | Aug 18, 2024 | AI, artificial intelligence, language, large language models, LLMs, neuroscience, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation
Language enables people to transmit thoughts to each other because each person’s brain responds similarly to the meaning of words. In our newly published research, my colleagues and I developed a framework to model the brain activity of speakers as they engaged in... by admin | Apr 18, 2023 | artificial intelligence (AI), Columns, Google, Industry News, language, News, OpenAI, Technology News, Yuval Noah Harari
When Yuval Noah Harari writes about something, it is as if the world’s conscience is speaking. When Russia invaded Ukraine last year, the famous Israeli academic and historian’s essay on why it was so disastrous was published bearing his name in The Economist, a...