Hacker News with Generative AI: Language Processing

Looking under the hood at the brain's language system (news.mit.edu)
Associate Professor Evelina Fedorenko is working to decipher the internal structure and functions of the brain’s language-processing machinery.
Neuroscience, Language Processing, Brain Research
4 points by rbanffy 23 days ago | 2 comments
To the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarin (news.mit.edu)
A new study finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain’s language-processing network.
Neuroscience, Linguistics, Language Learning, Brain Research, Language Processing
9 points by ilamont 39 days ago | 4 comments
Fixing left and mutual recursions in grammars (brightprogrammer.in)
Programming, Computer Science, Grammars, Language Processing
110 points by brightprogramer 83 days ago | 29 comments
Large language models don't behave like people, even though we expect them to (techxplore.com)
Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Language Processing
7 points by PaulHoule 260 days ago | 0 comments
Ultra-detailed brain map shows neurons that encode words' meaning (nature.com)
Neuroscience, Brain Mapping, Language Processing, AI
10 points by gmays 288 days ago | 1 comments
The the the the induction of jamais vu: word alienation and semantic satiation (tandfonline.com)
Psychology, Linguistics, Language Processing, Cognitive Science
82 points by ericciarla 311 days ago | 46 comments
New algorithm discovers language just by watching videos (csail.mit.edu)
Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Machine Learning
167 points by geox 317 days ago | 79 comments
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020) (news.mit.edu)
Neuroscience, Computer Science, Language Processing
52 points by thunderbong 335 days ago | 1 comments
To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language (2020) (news.mit.edu)
Brain Science, Computer Science, Language Processing
311 points by thunderbong 335 days ago | 206 comments