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UNESCO designated February 9 as the day for the celebration of World Greek Language Day. Credit: Georgia Nomikos/ Courtesy of the author. UNESCO studied the history of the Greek language and ...

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Scientists have developed an AI-powered modeling method that mimics how birds produce songs, similar to how large language models like ChatGPT generate human sentences. By training on birdsong ...

Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new modeling method trains on recordings of birds to create accurate birdsongs.