Language shapes visual processing in both human brains and AI models, study finds

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...
Slator

Italian Benchmark Evaluates Large Language Models, Includes AI Translation

A new community-driven initiative evaluates large language models using Italian-native tasks, with AI translation among the ...
The Fresno Bee

Fresno Unified’s dual-language program has surged in popularity. Who’s enrolling?

Over the past decade, Fresno Unified’s dual-language immersion program has quadrupled in popularity, growing from 900 pupils to 4,665 students at 20 schools. Dual-language immersion classrooms, in ...
Forbes

Large Behavior Models Surpass Large Language Models To Create AI That Walks And Talks

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I closely explore the rapidly emerging ...
The Atlantic

The AI Revolution Is Crushing Thousands of Languages

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 ...
Microsoft

AI ‘for all’: How access to new models is advancing academic research, from astronomy to education

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 ...
MIT Technology Review

Kids are learning how to make their own little language models

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 ...
HeraldNet

Una erupción!’: Dual language programs expanding to 10 local schools

A new bill aims to support 10 new programs each year statewide. In Snohomish County, most follow a 90-10 model of Spanish and English. EVERETT — Last week, Sofia Sierra, a second-grader at Emerson ...