machine learning

Language Carbon Dating: The Science of Glottochronology

Ever wonder how linguists estimate when languages like Spanish and French split from their common ancestor? The answer lies in…

3 weeks ago

Teaching AI Emotion: The Linguistics of Sentiment Analysis

How do we teach a machine to understand sarcasm or the subtle disappointment in a 'fine' review? This exploration delves…

3 weeks ago

How Search Engines Read Your Mind: The Linguistics of Search

Every time you use a search engine, you're interacting with a sophisticated linguistic machine that does more than just match…

3 weeks ago

The Chinese Room: Can a Machine Ever Understand?

John Searle's famous "Chinese Room" thought experiment poses a timeless challenge to the idea of a truly thinking machine. By…

3 weeks ago

Shattering Sentences: The Art of Tokenization

Before any AI can understand language, it must first shatter sentences into pieces through a process called tokenization. This crucial…

3 weeks ago

Speaking to Themselves: The Unsettling Rise of Inter-AI Languages We Can’t Understand

When two AI systems are tasked to work together, they often develop their own optimized, private language to communicate more…

3 weeks ago

The Unseen World of Linguistic Annotation: The Human Hands Behind AI Language Models

** Before an AI can understand language, a human has to teach it. This work is done by linguistic annotators,…

3 weeks ago

The Ghost in the Machine: How Linguists Teach Computers to Understand Ambiguity

Ever wonder how your phone knows you mean the band Queen, not a monarch? This post explores the linguistic challenge…

3 weeks ago

Will AI Translators Make Learning Foreign Languages Obsolete?

In an increasingly interconnected world, the ability to communicate effectively is more critical than ever. With the rise of artificial…

2 years ago

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