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 ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can’t fully understand language and it’s something people are only just getting their heads around. AI has become ingrained in our daily lives, whether we like it or not.

When we asked GPT-3, an extremely powerful and popular artificial intelligence language system, whether you’d be more likely to use a paper map or a stone to fan life into coals for a barbecue, it ...

When we asked GPT-3, an extremely powerful and popular artificial intelligence language system, whether you’d be more likely to use a paper map or a stone to fan life into coals for a barbecue, it ...

Systems that consume vast quantities of human creations to emulate our behaviors are pushing forward the cutting edge in AI. Dall-E and Stable Diffusion learned to generate images from prompts, ...

Ever since these models appeared, researchers and philosophers have debated whether they are complex ‘stochastic parrots’ or whether they are indeed capable of understanding and will eventually be ...

I'm also not sure what to make of the claims that LLMs could teach us better about language then we as the creators of it can, he seems to think so: "Weatherby pulls this together in the second half ...

“Ohio.” “Brat.” “Cringe.” “Weird.” Coconut emojis. Viral memes are omnipresent this campaign season, distilling concepts, images and ideas into simple, replicable formats that spread rapidly online.

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 ...

Veena D. Dwivedi receives funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and Brock University. Brock University provides funding as a ...