Words for a better world Sun Ra has a way with words – a strange celestial way. Like the rest of us, he uses them to communicate. But what he communicates ...

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And spoken language is more varied than written text. There are accents and dialects, meaningful hesitations that can’t be ...

The number of New Zealanders who speak te reo Māori grew 15% from 2018 to 2023 – and the nation’s artists are reflecting this ...

Most of us spend the day tossing out words without thinking about how they fit together. We text, we talk, we grumble in traffic. Every sentence quietly combines pieces of meaning. Now, scientists ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. After reviewing almost 30 years of signals, University of ...

That’s one way to visualize a large language model, or at least a medium-size one: Printed out in 14-point type, a 200-­ billion-parameter model, such as GPT4o (released by OpenAI in 2024), could fill ...

How large is a large language model? Think about it this way. In the center of San Francisco there’s a hill called Twin Peaks from which you can view nearly the entire city. Picture all of it—every ...

Are humans alone in the universe? Numerous sci-fi and horror stories have attempted to answer that question, and the truth is still anyone's guess. Some imagine aliens exploding out of human chest ...

No one really knows what Disclosure Day is about — and that seems to be exactly what Steven Spielberg wants. The acclaimed director's mysterious new UFO movie was first announced in April 2024, per ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Merch inspired by the Alien franchise is often hugely popular, something we were reminded of ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...