A linguist explains what makes human English human, and why you shouldn’t overdo it with large language models.

Gen Zers and Alphaers introduced a great deal of vocabulary into English. They have formed words by clipping, blending, compounding, borrowing, and making acronyms. Gen Zers and Alpha often clip words ...

Teams from Google and leading universities found that large-language models change the voice, tone and intended meaning of human authors.

Following what it's calling a successful pilot project to road-test 30 body-worn cameras, the Ottawa Police Service (OPS) now wants to deploy hundreds more, equipping the entire force by the end of ...

A developer just pulled off running a massive data-center AI model on a MacBook Pro. And it may show Apple is winning the AI race after all.

Handwriting engages motor, language, and attention systems, activating the brain more fully than typing. Writing by hand ...

The 'Bird by Bird' author and Neal Allen discuss their new book 'Good Writing' and their late-in-life romance.

Estimates say that 7 to 10% of children have language or communication difficulties, from primary language disorders to phonological and ...

Advanced technologies are propelling the CCP’s capabilities for suppressing speech to an entirely new level, both within and ...

I n a certain, strange way, generative AI peaked with OpenAI’s GPT-2 seven years ago. Little known to anyone outside of tech circles, GPT-2 excelled at producing unexpected answ ...

Poetry and artificial intelligence can appear as opposites—one deeply human; the other cold and mechanical. Sasha Stiles sees them as expressions of the same impulse. Poetry, the Kalmyk- American poet ...

Previous reports have indicated that between 20% and 60% of pregnant women in Ireland consume alcohol during pregnancy. Data on alcohol consumption by pregnant women in Ireland have previously only ...