We humans like to think that our language is original, but we absorb large amounts of it from others and liberally repeat and remix what we hear – just as language AIs do.
Researchers have identified ways to have more productive conversations – even when you’re talking to someone who holds an opposite view.
Linguistic analysis shows that activists and politicians have very different messages when it comes to the environment.
Linguists have long considered grammar to be the glue of language, and key to how children learn it. But new prose-writing AIs suggest language experience may be more important than grammar.
A language scientist explains that talking was never invented but has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years.
Fluent expression is not always evidence of a mind at work, but the human brain is primed to believe so. A pair of cognitive linguistics experts explain why language is not a good test of sentience.
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