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The Intelligence: what AI could mean for the world’s poorest

The Intelligence from The Economist

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Evaluating Language Beauty

This chapter examines a linguistic experiment assessing the beauty of languages using an audio source of a film about Jesus, rated by diverse listeners. Findings suggest that familiarity and voice preference significantly influence perceptions of language attractiveness, challenging the idea that certain linguistic features correlate with beauty.

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