Are you part robot? A linguistic anthropologist explains how humans are like ChatGPT – both recycle language

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.

Brendan H. O'Connor, Associate Professor, School of Transborder Studies, Arizona State University • conversation
June 12, 2023 • ~8 min

AI's threat to Google is more about advertising income than being the number one search engine

Could Google’s undisputed dominance as a search engine come under threat from AI?

Andy Tattersall, Information Specialist, University of Sheffield • conversation
Feb. 17, 2023 • ~8 min

The key to language is universal psychology, not universal grammar

Research on how children learn show we develop language skills by recycling other parts of our minds.

Paul Ibbotson, Lecturer in Developmental Psychology, The Open University • conversation
Aug. 21, 2020 • ~7 min

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