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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

The earliest known ceramic beads as adornment from Nanzhuangtou site in North China 10,000 years ago. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Chen J, Zhao J, Li J, Zhang W, Wang K, Ren X, Zhao W, Gao W.   +7 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

Social Stratification Without Genetic Differentiation at the Xisima Site in the Late Shang Dynasty. [PDF]

Mol Biol Evol
Tang J, Wang R, Wei Q, He H, Deng C, Tao L, Mao X, Ma H, Wang X, Zou X, Yang X, Zhang Q, Wu Q, Guo Y, Wang CC.   +14 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

The epigenetic archaeology of human-dog companionship. [PDF]

Epigenetics
Faraji J, Metz GAS.
europepmc   +1 more source

The role of the Eastern Mediterranean in human evolution: recent results from Greece Le rôle du Bassin méditerranéen oriental dans l’évolution humaine : résultats récents en Grèce

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The Eastern Mediterranean lies directly on the principal migration route for human groups dispersing across Africa, Europe, and Asia. It also encompasses the Balkans, where fauna and flora, as well as hominin populations, are thought to have persisted through glacial periods.
Katerina Harvati
wiley   +1 more source

Sourcing the origins of carnelian in early Chinese civilizations. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Yan M, Liu J, Qin C, He X, Li X, Yu J, Mao R, Han H, Sun Z, Wang C, Xie Z, Ran H, Tang F, Kenoyer JM, Tang Z.   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Recent progress in studies of the last million years of human physical and behavioural evolution Avancées récentes dans l’étude du dernier million d'années d’évolution physique et éthologique de l'espèce humaine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article presents a synthesis of recent developments in the study of human evolution over the past five years. It begins with an overview of hominin species nomenclature and diversity, followed by an examination of the proposed population bottleneck ∼900,000 years ago.
James Cole, Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mateja Hajdinjak, Chris Stringer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seabirds shaped the expansion of pre-Inca society in Peru. [PDF]

PLoS One
Bongers JL, Milton EBP, Osborn J, Drucker DG, Robinson JR, Scaffidi BK.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source