In America, we say “God willing.” In Mexico and other places, they say “si Dios quiere.” The phrases mean the same thing but they sound different. When you live in the borderlands, or in any community ...

What Is Natural Language Understanding? Natural language understanding (NLU) is a branch of AI that focusses on enabling computers to understand human language in the same way humans do. It’s a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Is living in a language-rich world enough to teach a child grammatical language? kate_sept2004/E+ via Getty Images Unlike the ...

“Ohio.” “Brat.” “Cringe.” “Weird.” Coconut emojis. Viral memes are omnipresent this campaign season, distilling concepts, images and ideas into simple, replicable formats that spread rapidly online.

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, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can’t fully understand language and it’s something people are only just getting their heads around. AI has become ingrained in our daily lives, whether we like it or not.

Spoken language understanding (SLU) and dialogue systems form the backbone of interactive computing, enabling machines to interpret, process, and respond to human speech. These systems integrate ...

Babies may be decoding more of our language than we assume, long before they utter their first word. New research shows that infants as young as 10 months can already recognise when a verb does not ...

People can develop a foreign accent in their native language, they make occasional grammatical mistakes, they become less fluent and use a less diverse vocabulary, but generally speaking, they are ...