How To Learn Python For Free: 10 Online Resources

With countless applications and a combination of approachability and power, Python is one of the most popular programming ...
Wired

For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert

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 ...
The Conversation

What are small language models and how do they differ from large ones?

Lin Tian receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) and the Defence Innovation Network. Marian-Andrei Rizoiu receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities ...
Futurism

Large Language Models Will Never Be Intelligent, Expert Says

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...
Scientific American

Learning Another Language May Slow Brain Aging, Huge New Study Finds

Speaking multiple languages could slow down brain ageing and help to prevent cognitive decline, a study of more than 80,000 people has found. The work, published in Nature Aging on 10 November, ...
Los Angeles Times

Much of ‘Predator: Badlands’ is in an alien language. We asked a Yautja expert to break it down

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “Predator: Badlands” is the first film in the franchise where much of the dialogue is in the alien hunters’ ...
Wall Street Journal

Their Daughter Invented a Board Game. It Took Over Their Lives.

ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS, N.J.—Erich Arcement was standing outside his New Jersey home one morning last October when a truck driver called to ask what time his store opened for deliveries. Arcement later ...
Quanta Magazine

In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...
Geeky Gadgets

How to Build Intelligent AI Agents in Python That Think and Adapt

Imagine a world where machines don’t just follow instructions but actively make decisions, adapt to new information, and collaborate to solve complex problems. This isn’t science fiction, it’s the ...
Nature

Python, the movie! The programming language’s origin story comes to the silver screen

In 2005, Travis Oliphant was an information scientist working on medical and biological imaging at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, when he began work on NumPy, a library that has become a ...
National Geographic news

The Māori saved their language from extinction. Here’s how.

Five years ago, in the heart of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, along the Canadian St. Lawrence River across from Montréal, Kanen’tó:kon Hemlock and Ieronhienhá:wi Tatum McComber pondered a question posed ...
Publishers Weekly

In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language

Efforts to make language simpler, clearer, less divisive and more truthful have backfired spectacularly, to judge by this delightful tour of linguistic hubris. Linguist Okrent explores some of the ...