CultureUNESCO estimates that about half of the world's 7 000 languages will disappear by 2100.
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Artificial Intelligence and the Power of Language
ColumnsThorsteinn Siglaugsson: How the mastery of language may be driving emergent abilities in Large Language Models, and what this means.
Are we building a new Tower of Babel?
ColumnsThorsteinn Siglaugsson: Large language models may not only master our language, they may become its masters.
Inadequate knowledge of Swedish among a growing number of doctoral students
SwedenAbout 30 percent of the doctoral students at the University of Gothenburg speak little or no Swedish.
Alingsås municipality introduces language requirements for employees
Sweden"It is important that our welfare staff can make themselves understood", says the chairman of the municipal board.
Boys coo more than girls in their first year of life
ScienceIt was previously thought that girls develop language earlier than boys - but this does not seem to be the case.
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