Why does AI write like that? Exploring strange patterns of machine text

It doesn’t open up the tapestry of human experience — it reads like it was written by a shut-in with Wi-Fi and a thesaurus.
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Engineer claims he found the Garden of Eden and maps the spot

The hunt for the Garden of Eden has usually belonged to theologians and dreamers, not software coders. Yet a computer ...

Africa has thousands of languages. Can AI be trained on all of them?

For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and ...
Quanta Magazine

The Polyglot Neuroscientist Resolving How the Brain Parses Language

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a ...
Stanford Social Innovation Review

When USAID Shut Down, Its Lessons Nearly Vanished. AI Helped Recover Them

A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.

Decoding the chemistry of life: Maximum entropy reveals how mutations alter enzymes and drive drug resistance

For decades, Arieh Warshel, USC Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and a 2013 Nobel laureate, has used computer simulations ...
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Nigerian data analyst wins Africa’s hackathon

A Nigerian data analyst, Somtochukwu Uzodufa, has emerged the winner of Africa’s Edtech hackathon — 10Alytics — taking home a $1,000 cash prize.According to a Sunday statement, Uzodufa’s exceptional ...