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If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

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Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

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The relationship between mutual intelligibility and linguistic classification is famously complex, often boiling down to ...

Beyond the salad bar and hot foods at the 5th Street Station Wegmans, seven people play Scrabble on a rainy Friday night.