New research shows AI language models mirror how the human brain builds meaning over time while listening to natural speech.

Clever research reveals that therapy-oriented AI chats can cause AI to act delusionally. The root is AI personas. I explain how it works. An AI Insider scoop.

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development of computational models inspired by the brain's layered organization, also ...

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 ...

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 ...

When researchers at the University of Geneva slid participants into an MRI scanner and played them a series of vocalizations—from humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and rhesus macaques—they expected to see ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

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 ...

Abstract: Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for human-like machine intelligence. Enabling these models in wearable augmented reality (AR) devices can elevate the ...

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 ...