AI models may be trained on the entire corpus of humanity’s writing, but it turns out their vocabulary can be strikingly limited. A new yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, spotted by Ars Technica, adds ...

Semantic leakage occurs when a word in a prompt is later used in an LLM chat in an unsuspecting way. This can be worrisome in ...

My task for our AI overlords was simple: help me crack the New York Times Spelling Bee. I had spent a large chunk of a Saturday evening trying to shape the letters G, Y, A, L, P, O and N into as ...

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The AI program was way less cute than a real baby. But like a baby, it learned its first words by seeing objects and hearing words. Some ideas of language learning hold that humans are born with ...