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, ...

A team of amateurs recently came together in an online collaboration called the Busy Beaver Challenge to pin down the value of BB(5), the fifth “busy beaver” number — a notoriously difficult problem ...

Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing. This evocative phrase comes from a 2021 paper co-authored ...

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 ...

Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.