I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as an undergraduate in Argentina. The lecturer asked a simple question: where does language come from? My instinctive answer was: books.

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We have all experienced the moment of digital magic: opening a foreign website, clicking “translate”, and watching a wall of incomprehensible text transform instantly into fluent English. Artificial ...

This illustrates a widespread problem affecting large language models (LLMs): even when an English-language version passes a safety test, it can still hallucinate dangerous misinformation in other ...

We often mistake the "aha!" moment of a clear explanation for actual mastery. The feeling of learning can be a psychological illusion, but we can spot the difference.

Learning French, reading the latest Andy Weir novel, hanging out with friends for St. Patrick's Day - language is central to all these everyday activities. Seemingly effortless from childhood, ...

Are you scared of speaking in English? Neil and Beth have a real conversation in easy English about practising languages. Learn to talk about learning languages and what you find difficult. Hello and ...

Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

Though new regulatory frameworks address fairness, accountability, and safety in AI systems, they often fail to directly mitigate the subtle communication bias in LLMs that can distort public ...

"Existentialism" is a label first applied in the West, but it can and should rightly be recognized as emerging in various ...