The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

Learn more about complex compositionality, an ability to combine words and calls that humans and bonobos apparently share.

The Toronto Maple Leafs are in a familiar position at the beginning of April. For the ninth straight season, the Leafs will ...

The ability to put together meaningful ‘words’ to form a ‘sentence’ with a new meaning was thought to be unique to humans ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

Bonobos—our closest living relatives—create complex and meaningful combinations of calls resembling the word combinations of ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...