How Teaching A.I. Endangered Languages Can Help Save Them

By feeding centuries-old nursery rhymes and folklore recordings into their own model, linguists in Louisiana hope to help a ...
IEEE

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Dependent Task Offloading in Multi-Access Edge Computing

Abstract: The resource-constrained edge devices are struggling with the rising computational demands of modern user applications with many dependent tasks. In this paper, we investigate the dependent ...
Scientific Research Publishing

AI-Enhanced Problem-Based Learning in Pathology Technology: An OBE-Driven Triadic Model of Clinical Problem, AI Validation, and Research Innovation ()

AI-Enhanced Problem-Based Learning in Pathology Technology: An OBE-Driven Triadic Model of Clinical Problem, AI Validation, ...
The Conversation

Where did language come from? Nobody really knows, but the theories are fascinating

Humans are the only species known to use fully symbolic language: a system capable of expressing abstract ideas, imaginary worlds and endless combinations of meaning. But how did we get there? The ...
IEEE

Industrial Internet of Things With Large Language Models (LLMs): An Intelligence-Based Reinforcement Learning Approach

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs), as advanced AI technologies for processing and generating natural language text, bring substantial benefits to the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) by ...
San Francisco Fed

AI and Scale: A Quantitative Task-Based Theory of Automation

AI automation typically requires task-level fixed costs, such as model training or fine-tuning. We develop a quantitative task-based framework in which automation depends jointly on relative marginal ...
The Conversation

It’s never too late to learn a language – adults and kids bring different strengths to the task

There’s a common assumption that if someone starts learning a language when they are very young, they will quickly become fluent. Many people also assume that it will become much harder to learn a ...
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Game-based Learning Simply Explained

As part of my Simply Explained series, I’ve been covering a range of student-centered instructional approaches, from project-based learning to experiential and inquiry-based learning. Today, I cover ...
PNAS

Three distinct components of pragmatic language use: Social conventions, intonation, and world knowledge–based causal reasoning

Real-life language comprehension frequently requires nonliteral interpretation and inferences about speaker intent. What is the structure of these so-called pragmatic abilities? We applied a ...
National Geographic news

Learning a second language can protect your brain. Here’s how.

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...