New-age tools such as AI may have created a window for a paradigm shift in language learning and assessment, but we should tread cautiously. The linguistic landscape of the South Asian subcontinent is ...

Recently, Bonaventure Dossou learned of an alarming tendency in a popular AI model. The program described Fon—a language spoken by Dossou’s mother and millions of others in Benin and neighboring ...

Statistics from 2015, pre-pandemic, approximate that 7.7% of U.S. children ages 13–17—nearly 1 in 12—have had a disorder related to voice, speech, language, or difficulty swallowing. However, a recent ...

Recent advances in generative AI and machine learning have evolved technological communication to levels beyond what was previously comprehensible. The recent and rapid rise of Large Language Models ...

In at least one crucial way, AI has already won its campaign for global dominance. An unbelievable volume of synthetic prose is published every moment of every day—heaping piles of machine-written ...

The granted patents span innovations in causal inference, large language model (LLM) training, AI-powered correlation, ...

The technology is one of the strongest examples yet of how artificial intelligence can be used in a seamless, practical way to improve people’s lives. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s ...

Technology is accelerating the rate of language disappearance, even while it offers the hope of preserving those that are endangered or extinct. A new crowd-sourcing platform aims to preserve the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Conversational AI is rapidly transforming how we interact with technology, enabling more natural, human-like dialogue with ...