The company has emailed affected users after a dark web source claims the data of almost 700,000 users was compromised.

Learn how Microsoft research uncovers backdoor risks in language models and introduces a practical scanner to detect tampering and strengthen AI security.

It uses a system called simplified molecular-input line-entry system (SMILES). This translates chemical 3D structures into ...

Jessica Mary Bradley currently receives funding from the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust in collaboration with Wellcome. Abigail Parrish does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

Summary: A new framework argues that human language did not arise from a single evolutionary leap but from the convergence of many biological abilities and cultural processes. The authors highlight ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

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.” ...

I will never forget the first conversation I had in French. I was in my mid 30s, and in the course of working on a book about America’s wars in the Mid East. I found myself sitting on the terrasse ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

Abstract: Vision-Language models (VLMs) like Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP) have been extensively adapted for few-shot classification. Most few-shot methods rely on randomly selected ...