Charlotte Entwistle has received funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Leverhulme Trust. Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Google Translate is rolling out new features that leverage Gemini, including live translation with headphones. Google Translate is now leveraging “advanced Gemini capabilities” to “improve ...

Marlee Matlin has won an Oscar, and she’s appeared in countless films and television shows. Yet she, too, has faced a common Deaf dilemma: how to claim equitable access to information, when one lives ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

Recently when testing out Gemini’s ability to recognize different accents and languages, I realized that the AI tool’s Live mode actually understands my second language: Afrikaans. This lead to me ...

Until now, the AI revolution has been largely measured by size: the bigger the model, the bolder the claims. However, as we move closer to truly autonomous and pervasive AI systems, a new trend is ...

Once upon a time, the English language was full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are disappearing from our vocabularies — and along with them, our connection to the ...

Like many of the young people in her Indigenous Anishinaabe community in the upper peninsula of Michigan, Danielle Boyer grew up speaking only a little of her people’s native language, ...