Early on in the evolution of artificial intelligence, researchers realized the power and possibility of machines that are able to understand the meaning and nuances of human speech. Conversation and ...

Microsoft just released its latest small language model that can operate directly on the user's computer. If you haven't ...

Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.

Researchers at the A.I. company Anthropic claim to have found clues about the inner workings of large language models, possibly helping to prevent their misuse and to curb their potential threats. By ...

Arthur Glenberg receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Cameron Robert Jones does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...

What's next for the fields of computer vision and natural language understanding? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better ...

Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer programmer who invented the natural-language-understanding program known as ELIZA and later grew skeptical of artificial intelligence, has died, his family said Thursday.

AI and machine learning systems have become increasingly competent in recent years, capable of not just understanding the written word but writing it as well. But while these artificial intelligences ...

Juergen Fritsch, chief scientist at Franklin, Tenn.-based M*Modal, and his colleagues developed natural language understanding technology for healthcare to help computerized systems turn spoken and ...

Understanding organismal traits and learning how they evolve and adapt to different environments is crucial for biologists and the battle against biodiversity loss. To be truly efficient, however, the ...

A computer analysis of hundreds of thousands of secure email messages between doctors and patients found that most doctors use language that is too complex for their patients to understand. The study ...

Neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the 'multiple demand network,' which is also recruited ...