Language shapes visual processing in both human brains and AI models, study finds

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...
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The risk of AI models inventing their own languages

In the rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), there is a growing concern about these systems developing their own languages, a concept that could have far-reaching implications. This ...
Quanta Magazine

Can AI Models Show Us How People Learn? Impossible Languages Point a Way.

Learning a language can’t be that hard — every baby in the world manages to do it in a few years. Figuring out how the process works is another story. Linguists have devised elaborate theories to ...
Nature

Meta’s AI translation model embraces overlooked languages

David I. Adelani is in the Department of Computer Science, University College London Centre for Artificial intelligence, London WC1V 6BH, UK; in the School of Computer Science, McGill University, ...

The Future of AI Is Small Language Models

Microsoft Corporation, Alphabet Inc Class A, NVIDIA Corporation, Meta Platforms Inc. Read 's Market Analysis on Investing.com ...
Quanta Magazine

To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language

Language isn’t always necessary. While it certainly helps in getting across certain ideas, some neuroscientists have argued that many forms of human thought and reasoning don’t require the medium of ...
The Atlantic

The AI Revolution Is Crushing Thousands of Languages

Recently, Bonaventure Dossou learned of an alarming tendency in a popular AI model. The program described Fon—a language spoken by Dossou’s mother and millions of others in Benin and neighboring ...
Forbes

Small Language Models Gaining Popularity While LLMs Still Go Strong

Small Language Models or SLMs are on their way toward being on your smartphones and other local devices, be aware of what's coming. In today’s column, I take a close look at the rising availability ...
Nature

Large language models are biased — local initiatives are fighting for change

In early 2023, Álvaro Soto was looking for Las doce figuras del mundo, a short story co-written by one of his favourite authors, Jorge Luis Borges. To track down the book in which the story was ...
The Economist

Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still

As recently as 2022, just building a large language model (LLM) was a feat at the cutting edge of artificial-intelligence (AI) engineering. Three years on, experts are harder to impress. To really ...
Wired

Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the Imitation Game benchmark, or BIG-bench, 450 researchers compiled a list of 204 tasks ...