In the United States, the share of new code written with AI assistance has skyrocketed from a mere 5% in 2022 to a staggering ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Older adults see AI as a valuable tool, but prefer it integrated into existing products, free or covered by insurance, and ...

I write this post with a clear but demanding purpose. I aim to apply insights from animal behavior research to gain a deeper understanding of how humans behave, struggle, and adapt. As a clinical ...

Warnings that artificial intelligence will wipe out jobs and outthink its creators have become a familiar soundtrack to the ...

Ph.D. candidate Yuchen Lian (LIACS) wants to understand why human languages look the way they do—and find inspiration to improve AI along the way. She defended her thesis on 12 December. "Languages ...

New research shows AI can analyze language with skills rivaling human experts. Credits: Jernej Furman from Slovenia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are showing ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

If you think of something to say and say it, that could never be AI slop, right? In theory, all organically grown utterances and snippets of text are safe from that label. But our shared linguistic ...

The way sperm whales communicate may be more similar to human language than previously thought. The acoustic properties of whale calls resemble vowels, a defining feature of human language, according ...