Language – Jewish Review

Talking speed key to understanding brain health, new study suggests.

February 28, 2024February 28, 2024Arsen Mayer

Being a “fast talker” has a negative connotation – trying to persuade or influence others using deceptive, tricky, fluent talk. But in the elderly, talking fast is a good thing, showing that one is probably not on the path to cognitive decline and dementia. Word-finding difficulty (WFD) is a common cognitive complaint among the elderly, […]

Israeli startup wins biggest ed-tech competition in the world

January 30, 2024January 30, 2024David Rutman

Israeli language AI startup “Storywizard.ai” won the Global Edtech Startup Awards (GESA) last Thursday in London, according to a recent press release on the event. The largest ed-tech competition in the world with over 3,000 applicants, GESA was founded by Avi Varshavsky, the CEO of MindCET (of CET) to promote international ed-tech entrepreneurship, according to […]

Can artificial intelligence predict what’s going to happen in your life?

December 18, 2023December 18, 2023David Rutman

Cutting-edge artificial intelligence designed to model written language has demonstrated an unprecedented capability: predicting significant life events and even estimating the time of death. A collaborative research effort from DTU, University of Copenhagen, ITU, and Northeastern University in the US has harnessed the power of large-scale data to train transformer models, similar to ChatGPT, revealing […]

Boost your vocabulary throughout your life to be a better reader

December 13, 2023December 13, 2023Arsen Mayer

A number of factors affect how we learn to read for the first time. Some of these factors benefit girls more than boys. Our reading skills and understanding of a text depend on the ability to decode texts, learn the letters of the alphabet, and know the different words and how they sound. However, vocabulary […]