Let's face it — one of the most awkward situations you can find yourself in is having a communication gap when you're in a foreign country. Gone are the days of hiring a translator or relying solely ...

Text has always been one of humanity’s most enduring tools for thinking and connection. Whether carved in stone, printed on ...

Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing. This evocative phrase comes from a 2021 paper co-authored ...

Quantum physics as a Shakespearean sonnet. Trade theory explained by a pirate. A children’s story about a space-faring dinosaur. People have had fun asking modern chatbots to produce all sorts of ...

Mark Stevenson has previously received funding from Google. The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new ...

Meta has created an AI language model that (in a refreshing change of pace) isn’t a ChatGPT clone. The company’s Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) project can recognize over 4,000 spoken languages ...