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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic formation and regional disparities of Kra-Dai and Hmong-Mien speakers inferred from ancient genomes of cave burial populations in southwest China. [PDF]

Mol Biol Evol
Tao L, Xie Y, He H, Bai T, Guo J, Zhu K, Wang B, Xie G, Lin Q, Wang CC.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Animal translations: AI and the intelligibility of non‐human worlds Traduire l'animal : l'IA et l'intelligibilité des mondes non humains

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
wiley   +1 more source

Minimally Destructive Radiocarbon Dating of Bone. [PDF]

Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom
Higham T, Luftensteiner K, van der Sluis L, Giannì M, Wiegele M, Papadogianni A, Steier P, Gruber D, Schmidt B, Schmidt K, Belinski A, Mensan R, Kozlikin M, Shunkov M, Neruda P, Nerudová Z, Horejs B, Schulze J, Douka K, Stafford TW.   +19 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing social mechanisms and interregional connections in Early Bronze Age Societies in Lower Austria. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Furtwängler A, Rebay-Salisbury K, Neumann GU, Kanz F, Ringbauer H, Bianco RA, Schmidt T, Semerau L, Radzevičiūtė R, Barquera R, Rohland N, Stewardson K, Workman JN, Curtis E, Zalzala F, Callan K, Iliev L, Qiu L, Cheronet O, Wagner A, Bravo Morante G, Spannagel M, Teschler-Nicola M, Novotny F, Verdianu D, Pinhasi R, Reich D, Krause J, Stockhammer PW, Mittnik A.   +29 more
europepmc   +1 more source

‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

Multiproxy stable isotope analysis provides insights into diet, animal management, and residential mobility in Old Bara, a metropolitan suburb of the Oyo Empire, West Africa. [PDF]

PLoS One
Akogun MO, Szpak P, Oelze VM, Leishman K, Hilsden J, Speller C, Janz L, Aleru JO, Ogundiran A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The morphological affinities of the fossil cranium from Kabua, Kenya Affinités morphologiques du crâne fossile de Kabua (Kenya)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our current understanding of the origins of Homo sapiens is limited, in part, by the fragmented fossil record from Late Pleistocene and early Holocene Africa. Here, we re‐examine the Kabua 1 cranium, an enigmatic and little‐studied Kenyan fossil discovered in the 1950s. We compare virtual reconstructions created previously by our team with a wide range
Abel Marinus Bosman, Laura Tabitha Buck, Hugo Reyes‐Centeno, Marta Mirazón Lahr, Chris Stringer, Rainer Grün, Qingfeng Shao, Katerina Harvati   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ancient genomes uncover dynamic cultural and genetic interplay in the eastern Tianshan. [PDF]

Mol Biol Evol
Yang X, Zou X, Li H, Yang X, Wang B, Ma H, Wang Y, Xu Y, Li C, Wang CC.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source