Visiting a country without speaking the language can be a highly awkward experience. Seemingly simple tasks back home, like taking a taxi to reach a destination and ordering food at a restaurant, suddenly become complex endeavors, and it feels hard to interact with the local population or connect with the environment. These challenges often disincentivize individuals from visiting certain countries, as one-third of Americans surveyed internationally admit they stick to holida

This summer, I had the opportunity to engage in fascinating cybersecurity research. This has prompted me to dive deeper into the field and explore how natural language processing (NLP) can enhance it. The first main application of NLP to the field is identifying phishing emails. These emails are particularly dangerous because they can trick users into revealing sensitive information or downloading malicious software. Hence, filtering them out before users can even access them

Large language models have developed at such a rapid rate that they now sound extremely human-like, to the point where individuals who use them sometimes forget that they are conversing with a computer rather than a real person. Some people may in turn wonder whether LLMs are over time going to fundamentally change the nature of human language. This month, I had the opportunity to watch a Ted Talk given by Professor Jessica Coon, “Lessons from linguistics for the future of AI