As someone who owns more than fifteen volumes from the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, I approach each new release with both interest and caution: the series often delivers thoughtful, ...

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Nexus proposes higher-order attention, refining queries and keys through nested loops to capture complex relationships.

Lin Tian receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA) and the Defence Innovation Network. Marian-Andrei Rizoiu receives funding from the Advanced Strategic Capabilities ...

Alexandr Wang, the company’s AI chief, said the new model will debut soon, along with a large language model dubbed Avocado.

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In early 2023, Álvaro Soto was looking for Las doce figuras del mundo, a short story co-written by one of his favourite authors, Jorge Luis Borges. To track down the book in which the story was ...

A new study reveals that the human brain processes spoken language in a sequence that closely mirrors the layered ...

Over the past decade, the intersection of artificial intelligence and public policy research has been dramatically influenced by the evolution of large ...

Ask him how it all began, and he remembers the ice. It was a bitter morning in January, 1982, when Bernard Cathomas, aged thirty-six, carefully picked his way up a slippery, sloping Zurich street. His ...