Bonobos, great apes related to us and chimpanzees that live in the Republic of Congo, communicate with vocal calls including […]
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Brains of parrots, unlike songbirds, use human-like vocal control
Skip to content A parrot called the budgerigar controls its vocalizations with a flexible system. Human speech arises courtesy of […]
Huh? The valuable role of interjections
Utterances like um, wow, and mm-hmm aren’t garbage—they keep conversations flowing. Interjections—one-word utterances that aren’t part of a larger sentence—used […]
To help AIs understand the world, researchers put them in a robot
There’s a difference between knowing a word and knowing a concept. Large language models like ChatGPT display conversational skills, but […]