IIT Madras researchers are teaching AI to understand India's linguistic diversity by collecting speech data from various ...

The history of computing contains a recurring pattern: the infrastructure arrives first, and the language that makes it ...

The Israeli writer and philosopher, author of 'Sapiens', warns about the powers, threats and challenges artificial intelligence poses to humanity ...

AI detection tools promised a clean solution to the internet's growing slop problem. What they've delivered is a coin flip. Academic studies and independent tests have repeatedly shown that the most ...

As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine writing, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson ...

In the Karoo, South Africa’s vast semidesert, an African striped mouse basks in the morning warmth outside the bush it calls home. Nearby, audio equipment casts a long shadow on the rust-colored earth ...

Estimation of item difficulty is essential in language test development, but recent attention has shifted toward the need also to explain and predict it. This has practical implications for item ...

Women’s Day is a moment to recognise women who have shaped different fields, including technology and artificial intelligence ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...