Sasha Stiles turned GPT-2 experiments into a self-writing poem at a Museum of Modern Art installation—and a new way to think about text-generating AI optimization ...

The blog recommended that users learn to train their own AI models by downloading the Harry Potter dataset and then uploading text files to Azure Blob Storage. It included example models based on a ...

Rio de Janeiro's Carnival is using samba parades to spotlight Black Brazilian women writers who rarely get public recognition ...

This very special live recording of World Book Club in Paris features celebrated French novelist Laurent Binet in conversation about his groundbreaking novel HHhH ...

Sheena Shah and Matthias Brenzinger discuss their recording of Mathabang Hlaela speaking in the endangered language of siPhuthi with her as young girls watch, in the village of Ha Sekhobe in Daliwe ...

Amazon announced on Thursday the launch of Kindle Translate, an AI-powered translation service designed for authors using Kindle Direct Publishing to broaden their reach. The service initially ...

For something that happens mostly alone and in silence, reading can be surprisingly intimate. Our favorite books reveal our interests, inspire the way we think, and offer storylines and fantasies we ...

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat. Or attend to a pot that’s boiling over.

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 ...

BEYOND LANGUAGE by Dmitri A. Borgmann. 338 pages. Scr/bner’s. $7.50. This is a book for the tired scientist, mathematician or logician. But the word games that Dmitri Borgmann has collected for his ...

Rich Oxenham was working at Action on Hearing Loss to assist deaf and hard of hearing people in the United Kingdom while spending his spare time running a Dungeons & Dragons group for local teens.