A new classroom lab, complete with wireless headphones, large touch-screen monitors and retractable computers that can be lowered into desks to improve visibility, has opened in Rochester Institute of ...

I’M SORRY, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” With chilling calm, HAL 9000, the on-board computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey”, refuses to open the doors to Dave Bowman, an astronaut who had ventured ...

Google announced a breakthrough technology called CALM that speeds up large language models (like GPT-3 and LaMDA) without compromising performance levels. Larger Training Data Is Better But Comes ...

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Swedish startup Gavagai AB, a language technology company that originated at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, has mastered 40 human languages with its language analysis software. Now, ...

Created by Josh Wardle, the game Wordle went public in October 2021 and has since skyrocketed in popularity and inspired many offshoots. It’s surprisingly simple: Each day, players have six attempts ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions. At least, that is, so ...

And what does the future hold for the English language online? In the third of a series of articles examining the impact of technology on our society and ourselves, silicon.com's Natasha Lomas looks ...

There are many things that technology can do well when it comes to monitoring body language. A computer can detect the slightest microexpression — something that even highly trained experts don’t ...