With over 7,100 languages spoken across our planet, it can be hard to imagine a world in which written and spoken language didn’t exist. We use it for everything: from ordering takeout to ...

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT (using large language models) call into question the very ...

A team of researchers has successfully developed a more efficient method to control the outputs of large language models ...

The cognitive flexibility that comes from being multilingual can give students a boost in math—if teachers know how to build ...

As AI technology and machine learning develop into new fields and areas, scientists are using it to decode animal language, ...

Together, these studies suggest both species evolved to develop fundamental building blocks of human language. Bonobos and chimpanzees are the species most closely related to humans in ...