Charles Hockett’s ‘design features’ no longer reflect major findings in linguistics, cognitive science, and biology.

Practising a tool-using task helps people do better in a test of complex language understanding – and the benefits go the other way too. The crossover may happen because some of the same parts of the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can’t fully understand language and it’s something people are only just getting their heads around. AI has become ingrained in our daily lives, whether we like it or not.

The idea that we have brains hardwired with a mental template for learning grammar—famously espoused by Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—has dominated linguistics for almost ...

The success of ChatGPT and its competitors is based on what’s termed emergent behaviors. These systems, called large language models (LLMs), weren’t trained to output natural-sounding language (or ...

Structure content for AI search so it’s easy for LLMs to cite. Use clarity, formatting, and hierarchy to improve your visibility in AI results. In the SEO world, when we talk about how to structure ...

Words are only part of the story, in the job interview process - and understanding body language is the best way to create success in your career. Body language is the sum total off all the signs we ...