When “no” means “yes”: Why AI chatbots can’t process Persian social etiquette

"Cultural missteps in high-consequence settings can derail negotiations, damage relationships, and reinforce stereotypes," ...
Quanta Magazine

How ‘Embeddings’ Encode What Words Mean — Sort Of

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but how many numbers is a word worth? The question may sound silly, but it happens to be the foundation that underlies large language models, or LLMs — and ...
Nature

Ultra-detailed brain map shows neurons that encode words’ meaning

The study is based on words only in English. But it’s a step along the way to working out how the brain stores words in its language library, says neurosurgeon Ziv Williams at the Massachusetts ...
JSTOR Daily

REPRESENTATION AND EMBODIMENT OF MEANING IN L2 COMMUNICATION: Motion Events in the Speech and Gesture of Advanced L2 Korean and L2 English Speakers

Vol. 30, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE: Gesture and SLA: Toward an Intergrated Approach (June 2008), pp. 191-224 (34 pages) This study investigates the interface between speech and gesture in second language ...
Business Wire

Breakthrough from REMspace: First Ever Communication Between People in Dreams

Participants successfully exchanged information through lucid dreams in a groundbreaking experiment by a Silicon Valley startup REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Researchers at REMspace, a ...
Forbes

The Future of Communication Is Rooted In The Past

For most of human history, communication has been face-to-face. Before there was clay tablets, pens, paper, email, or Slack, the only way to talk to one another was… to talk to one another. This was ...