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The evolution of language through social media | TV Shows
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The evolution of language through social media | TV Shows

From Shakespeare’s eloquent soliloquies to Gen Z’s rapid-fire abbreviations, language is evolving as quickly as the world itself. Driven by social media, globalisation,...

A neuroscientist explains why it’s impossible for AI to ‘understand’ language
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A neuroscientist explains why it’s impossible for AI to ‘understand’ language

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As meaning-makers, we use spoken or signed language to understand our experiences in the world around us. The emergence...

Neurosymbolic AI is the answer to large language models’ inability to stop hallucinating
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Neurosymbolic AI is the answer to large language models’ inability to stop hallucinating

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The main problem with big tech’s experiment with artificial intelligence (AI) is not that it could take over humanity....

How language models perform in human-like social scenarios
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How language models perform in human-like social scenarios

Prediction scenarios in the Battle of the Sexes. Credit: Nature Human Behaviour (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02172-y Large language models (LLMs)—the advanced AI behind tools...

Large language model accurately predicts online chat derailments
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Large language model accurately predicts online chat derailments

Examples of conversational derailment on Wikipedia Talk Pages: On the left is an example of a discussion that concluded without derailment, while on...

AI overconfidence mirrors a human language disorder
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AI overconfidence mirrors a human language disorder

The nature of the dynamics of signals in both the brains of people with aphasia and in large language models, or LLMs, proved...

New technique offers more control over large language models
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New technique offers more control over large language models

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine developing a finer control knob for artificial intelligence (AI) applications like Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT. Mikhail Belkin,...

Key units in AI models mirror human brain’s language system
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Key units in AI models mirror human brain’s language system

Identifying specialized and causally task-relevant units in LLMs. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.02280 EPFL researchers have discovered key “units” in large AI models...

Like humans, ChatGPT favors examples and ‘memories,’ not rules, to generate language
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Like humans, ChatGPT favors examples and ‘memories,’ not rules, to generate language

Ratio of bases preferring “-ness” in the Pile (A) and GPT-J’s predictions with one example prompt (B). Results are similar for the other...