At the heart of conversation is turn-taking: the ability to coordinate interaction in time. This means alternating speaking ...

UC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained "metalinguistic ability," a hallmark of human language and ...

Human opinion formation has evolved to favor survival and social cohesion. Understanding this enables us to develop more ...

In this paper, we propose a new natural language generation (NLG) method for spoken dialog systems and demonstrate its capacity. Studies on NLG often employ sequence decoding, which generates the ...

A recent social media claim that Albanian is the oldest Indo-European language still in use has been debunked as ...

Explore Dr. Jerry Bergman's account of Aimee Semple McPherson's wrestling with Darwinism and her passionate fight against ...

Why we need complete evolutionary trees The value of timed evolutionary trees containing every species of a given lineage cannot be understated. While such trees are intrinsically compelling, as they ...

Recently, Professor Jiao Licheng's team at Xidian University conducted a systematic and in-depth review of the integration of large language models and evolutionary algorithms. The review ...

Ash trees in the UK are rapidly evolving resistance in response to ash dieback disease, DNA sequencing of hundreds of trees has shown. The finding is good news, says Richard Buggs at the Royal ...

Evolutionary Clue: The expansion of infant-directed vocalization may be a key turning point in human language evolution. Source: University of Zurich An almost universal phenomenon in humans is the ...

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.