Human language may seem messy and inefficient compared to the ultra-compact strings of ones and zeros used by computers—but our brains actually prefer it that way. New research reveals that while ...

A team of researchers has found a way to steer the output of large language models by manipulating specific concepts inside ...

Coding can help students understand the building blocks of world languages, and it provides an authentic way to tell stories.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Sir: A man, who cannot speak his native language, is a cultural alien; and as such, he cannot be socialized into his people’s culture. Language, we know, belongs to the non-material aspect of culture.

The Federal Government has cancelled the national language policy that made the use of indigenous languages compulsory in Nigerian schools, declaring English as the official medium of instruction ...

Imagine asking a powerful AI "How do I bake a cake?" and getting a philosophical treatise on baking history—or worse, confidently wrong instructions like "bake at 50 degrees for 10 hours." This is the ...

Karen Roehr-Brackin received funding from the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust (grant reference SRG23\230787) which supported the research project reported here. If you’ve always wanted to learn a new ...

There’s always some debate around what style of architecture is best for certain computing applications, with some on the RISC side citing performance per watt and some on the CISC side citing ...

Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly become indispensable Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, powering applications from chatbots and content creation to coding assistance. Despite their ...