A new program aims to teach them how AI works, by getting hands-on. “This new AI technology—it’s very interesting to learn how it works and understand it more,” says 10-year-old Luca, a young AI model ...

Learning a language can’t be that hard — every baby in the world manages to do it in a few years. Figuring out how the process works is another story. Linguists have devised elaborate theories to ...

Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to take a page from a children’s book. That’s the lesson Microsoft researchers learned by figuring out how to pack more punch into a much smaller ...

Have you ever found yourself deep in the weeds of training a language model, wishing for a simpler way to make sense of its learning process? If you’ve struggled with the complexity of configuring ...

Language isn’t always necessary. While it certainly helps in getting across certain ideas, some neuroscientists have argued that many forms of human thought and reasoning don’t require the medium of ...

The arrival of AI systems called large language models (LLMs), like OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, has been heralded as the start of a new technological era. And they may indeed have significant impacts on ...

What the firm found challenges some basic assumptions about how this technology really works. The AI firm Anthropic has developed a way to peer inside a large language model and watch what it does as ...

In early 2023, Professor Alice Oh and her colleagues at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) realized they needed to address the quickly growing interest in OpenAI ChatGPT ...