What Is Natural Language Understanding? Natural language understanding (NLU) is a branch of AI that focusses on enabling computers to understand human language in the same way humans do. It’s a ...

This article is part of “the philosophy of artificial intelligence,” a series of posts that explore the ethical, moral, and social implications of AI today and in the future. If a computer gives you ...

Early on in the evolution of artificial intelligence, researchers realized the power and possibility of machines that are able to understand the meaning and nuances of human speech. Conversation and ...

Systems that consume vast quantities of human creations to emulate our behaviors are pushing forward the cutting edge in AI. Dall-E and Stable Diffusion learned to generate images from prompts, ...

Words are often seen as the building blocks of languages. But as children we don’t learn lists of words like we might in a school language class. We learn longer strings of sounds and break them up ...

A study is looking into the effects being a translator can have on child development. More than 18 million children in the U.S. have at least one immigrant parent. For parents who don’t speak English, ...