No one ever sat down and suddenly spoke “English” for the first time. The language crept into existence slowly, through messy overlap, borrowing, and everyday speech changing one generation at a time.

Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could "induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal ...

Humans ask what things mean. Animals move on. That difference explains both our brilliance and much of our psychological ...

Swiss authorities have said that a deadly fire at a ski resort bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, rapidly developed into a “flashover” – a dangerous phenomenon in which everything in a room ignites ...

The Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (VEA) charges a lower expense ratio and covers more countries, while the iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA) delivers a higher yield and excludes Canadian stocks.

Largest wildlife overpass in North America opens across six-lane interstate US strikes Syria targets in response to fatal attack on Americans Rep. Elise Stefanik set to drop her bid for NYS governor ...

When GM chief engineer Al Oppenheiser was tapped to develop the electric GMC Hummer pickup truck, he was given an aggressive timeline that seemed impossible: cut two years from the development cycle.

As Hollywood Monday remembered the life and work of filmmaker Rob Reiner, who was found dead with stab wounds Sunday, his legacy as a political advocate and activist was also honored across the state.

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered architecture of advanced AI language models. Using electrocorticography data from ...

Learning a new language before the Internet was brutal. It involved dense textbooks and a bunch of in-person classes, spending innumerable hours en route to full fluency. We've come a long way since ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...