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AI Translation Judges Struggle With the Same Errors Human Reviewers Do
A new study from Apple ML Research finds that large language models are only a partial replacement for human graders when checking the quality of machine-translated text, with both groups stumbling on the same hard cases.
The Better AI Behaves, the Worse It Writes
Researchers have found a sharp tension at the heart of AI language tools: the better you control what a chatbot says, the more likely it is to start talking gibberish. Here's what that means for the apps you use every day.
Ancient Greek Has a New AI Reader. It Trained on 600 Million Words of History.
A model called Apollo can fill in the blanks of tattered papyrus fragments in hours. Scholars who once spent years on a single reconstruction say it changes what is even possible.
Children learn language on a fraction of the data AI needs. Scientists want to know why.
A toddler masters grammar after hearing roughly 10 million words. A large language model may consume 15 trillion. Closing that gap could reshape how AI is built.
Apple AI Research Finds a Cheap Way to Teach AI More Languages
A new technique from Apple ML Research helps AI understand low-resource languages without needing mountains of translated text, and it could matter for hundreds of millions of people whose languages get left behind.
What is a large language model and how does it work?
The plain-English guide to the technology behind ChatGPT, Claude, and every AI that seems to understand you.
CLaRa Teaches AI to Read Smarter, Not Longer
A new framework from Apple ML Research squeezes documents into compact summaries before feeding them to an AI, cutting the junk and keeping the answers.
The Original Chatbot Had Many Faces, and We Never Knew It
ELIZA, the 1960s program that convinced people a computer understood them, turns out to be far stranger and more capable than anyone realised. Newly unearthed source code changes the story.