In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Shawn Heinrichs. As my colleague Ross Andersen reported in a recent feature for The Atlantic, an international group of scientists called Project CETI is working ...

In the 2016 science fiction movie Arrival, a linguist is faced with the daunting task of deciphering an alien language consisting of palindromic phrases, which read the same backwards as they do ...

If you've ever boiled with inner turmoil at the failure of your Android device to recognize an “OK Google” command, you know AI speech recognition and natural language processing still have a long way ...

Machine-learning algorithms being used to better understand the communication of dolphins could form the basis for understanding aliens — if we ever find them. When you purchase through links on our ...