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The writing on a recently-discovered tablet has linguists baffled, and GPT passes the Turing Test

Here’s what happened this week in language and linguistics.

Daniel W. Hieber, Ph.D.

Daniel W. Hieber, Ph.D.

24 Apr 2025 — 13 min read
The writing on a recently-discovered tablet has linguists baffled, and GPT passes the Turing Test

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