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AI learns its first words (and helps explain how humans acquire language)

AI learns its first words (and helps explain how humans acquire language)

How do we learn to associate specific objects with specific words? A team from New York University have developed an AI ‘baby’ to help us answer this question.
The Language of Time

The Language of Time

The language you speak directly impacts your understanding of time. Could the western-dominated scientific community be losing out on important interpretations of the universe?
Growing up bilingual

Growing up bilingual

Learning a language from your parents gives a very different understanding of a language from those taught in school

Feature: The Virtues Of Hip Hop Masters

We spoke to University of Manchester student Louise Middleton, whose research shows that rhyming patterns come as second nature to some of hip hop’s biggest stars

Outrage as exam papers ask ‘unanswerable’ questions

Complaints made after series of blunders during January exams