The way humans interact with technology has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past decade. Traditional interfaces, ...

Emerging Voice in Tech Analysis Questions Trillion-Dollar AI Valuations and Points to Robotics as True Future of Artificial Intelligence The real value of AI will come from the systems we build around ...

anthropomorphism: When humans tend to give nonhuman objects humanlike characteristics. In AI, this can include believing a ...

Top AI researchers like Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are developing world models, which don't rely solely on language.

This year, AI continued looming large in the software world. But more than before, people are wrestling with both its amazing ...

Scientists are building experimental computers from living human brain cells and testing how they learn and adapt.

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 ...

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining speakers, while others, such as Chinese, English, Spanish and Hindi, are ...

Will computers ever match or surpass human-level intelligence — and, if so, how? When the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), based in Washington DC, asked its members ...

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 ...

Summary: A new framework argues that human language did not arise from a single evolutionary leap but from the convergence of many biological abilities and cultural processes. The authors highlight ...