Learning English is no easy task, as countless students well know. But when the student is a computer, one approach works surprisingly well: Simply feed mountains of text from the internet to a giant ...

On a warm fall day, 2-year-old Anthony went to his classroom at the Bombeck Family Learning Center. After signing him in and sharing the requisite seven hugs, Anthony walked over to his teacher and, ...

Sometimes the best way to solve a complex problem is to take a page from a children’s book. That’s the lesson Microsoft researchers learned by figuring out how to pack more punch into a much smaller ...

Phi-3 learned from ‘bedtime stories’ created by other LLMs. Phi-3 learned from ‘bedtime stories’ created by other LLMs. is a reporter who writes about AI. She also covers the intersection between ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...