As well as playing against themselves and fellow AI agents, the LLMs played against 2,000 experienced human players. They were evaluated based on how well they kept track of what was going on. For ...

Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting ...

In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

Scientists believe that ancestors to modern humans may have used speech too. altmodern/E+ via Getty Images What’s amazing is that for almost all of that time, all people did with language was talk; ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Scientists believe that ancestors to modern ...