Science shows that dogs learn to form mental representations of words, shedding light on why they often seem to grasp our conversations. Nothing quite captures the heart like videos of dogs appearing ...

Understand seems like a pretty straightforward English word. It comes directly from Old English, it’s composed of two simpler words, under and stand, and it’s had its current meaning, to comprehend, ...

Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing. This evocative phrase comes from a 2021 paper co-authored ...

These days, large language models such as ChatGPT are omnipresent. Yet their inner workings remain deeply mysterious. To Naomi Saphra, that’s an unsatisfying state of affairs. “We don’t know what ...

As meaning-makers, we use spoken or signed language to understand our experiences in the world around us. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence such as ChatGPT (using large language ...