For a long time, anthropologists believed that a written language was a hallmark of a society being complex or 'advanced.' A new study on precolonial Mesoamerican societies shows that you can have a ...

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Teams from Google and leading universities found that large-language models change the voice, tone and intended meaning of human authors.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Early hunter-gatherers who lived in the caves of Paleolithic Europe are now thought to have developed something similar to a writing system. The ...