Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For most of history, communicating with a computer has not been like communicating with a person. In their earliest years, computers required carefully ...

Siri and Alexa are good, but no one would mistake them for a human being. Google’s newest project, however, could change that. Called Tacotron 2, the latest attempt to make computers talk like people ...

At first glance, ChatGPT’s consistency feels like a strength. It makes the system reliable and predictable. Yet these very qualities also make it less human. Real people avoid sounding repetitive.

Technological history may not repeat, but it occasionally rhymes. Last September, ChatGPT, the popular generative A.I. program made by OpenAI, released a voice mode that allowed users to talk to the ...

Johns Hopkins University researchers have created a system that could make social robots more effective at detecting and managing user interruptions in real time based on a human speaker's intent—a ...

A new landmark BCI study led by Stanford Medicine neuroscientists demonstrates a brain-computer interface capable of decoding ...

Researchers have developed a model that enables computers to interpret and understand human emotions, utilizing principles of mathematical psychology. In the future, the model can help the computer to ...