Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For most of history, communicating with a computer has not been like communicating with a person. In their earliest years, computers required carefully ...

The latest version of ChatGPT has the internet wondering: Was it meant to make it sound like Scarlett Johansson in the movie Her? Its creators insist the model was not based on the movie. OpenAI ...

In the nineteen-sixties, Joseph Weizenbaum, a computer scientist at M.I.T., created a computer program called Eliza. It was designed to simulate Rogerian therapy, in which the patient directs the ...

Language is commonly understood as the instrument of thought. People “talk it out” and “speak their mind,” follow “trains of thought” or “streams of consciousness.” Some of the pinnacles of human ...

MY LOVE’S LIKE a red, red rose. It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Life is a highway, I wanna ride it all night long. Metaphor is a powerful and wonderful tool. Explaining one thing in terms of ...

The ultimate aim of modern computing advancements, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, is to make as much of the human experience as possible programmable. And with the advancements ...

Neuralink begins human trials for brain implants designed to restore speech. The technology decodes thoughts into text ...