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Something extraordinary and magical about human language. >> shes a cognitive neuroscientist. shes dedicated her lifes work to understanding language. it all started with a chimpanzee named nim. >> they said that the reason that makes us different is that we talk. and animals cant talk. well, i thought that was so strange because if you see me working with the chimpanzee, theres something thats very striking. i wasnt trying to teach him how to talk english, i was trying to teach him american sig...

Renounced his citizenship and law degree. he wrote i am of genius intau elect. i am gods gift to human kind where the human language is concerned. i dress better than all of you. pronounce my words perfectly and have a winning professional handshake. i am everything you wanted to be. he reminds me of another certain gop candidate. jill gill pour. gillmore. it says on the new moon of may i shill disappear in the wilderness. i will return with revolution or to the return at all. this guy seems pre...

Meeting him in person and his words and his presence, perhaps, even to the speaker of the house but indeed, everyone in his speeches, the language that he has used is not typical of papal language. its simple, direct, human language and i think that is part of the reason why he is able to get peoples attention and why people remember. if you remember when he was elected, wolf, at the vatican and came onto the balcony and the first thing he said is [speaking foreign language] good evening. a pope...

Trigger some of our deepest memories. when it comes to hearing, the entire auditory system relies on tiny little hairs in your ears. they pick up the vibrations from your eardrum and convert them to nerve impulses. thats the message your brain receives. interpreting the impulses as sound. for more than one h up years it was believed that brain tissue in this region was intended to process sound and sound only. that was until dr. laura began her work, focusing not on sound and speech but on langu...

>> theres a hitchhiking robot trying to make its way across the country. hes adorable. he wants you to pick him up. >> im a very talkative robot. during my travels i have been working on my human language skills and ive been doing my homework on american culture and have a lot of things to talk to you about. im all set and ready to go and i cannot wait to make friends along the way. >> she has a gps and camera. think about where you might put them when youre traveling. just saying. >> i wouldnt ...

Horrified. and then this woman moves in as the nanny. it is -- music is a human then rachel testifies, its clear shes making goo goo eyes language but also a physical at her father. its clear they are having an reality in the universe, affair. undeniable, empirically true, it shes not really a nanny. its one slam dunk after shows us that there is grace. another. for a prosecution that i thought was kind of wobbly a little bit, you know, theres no mistake an ace in the hole. >> wow. that the chur...

Scientists took underwater recording devices to record and track the wild dolphins and then they played those whistles back to the dolphins who own them. hear are some of the sounds. [ dolphins ] >> here is the cool thing. when the dolphins heard the names that were called back to them, they responded. when they heard their name, right? kind of like that was their signature. hey, im here. well, the strange dolphins didnt reply. but their family and friends also replied to the same whistle. so th...

That every aspect of human life will be irreversibly transformed. >> yeah. i did say that. i mean, this is a billion times more powerful per dollar than the computer i used as a student. it will happen again in the next 25 years. >> right. >> 100,000 times smaller. 25 years this will be the size of a blood cell. the software is also getting smarter. look at watson that can understand human language. >> the one competing in "jeopardy". >> right. does pretty good with the subtleties of english. >>...

Were talking about in terms of our students. people who are 14 today were born in 1997, after the internet was up as a search engine, as a shopping tool. and so theyre tuned in to this, i mean this is the latest in voice-recognition technology. according to ibm, watson, the computer that pretty much destroyed his human competition, im sorry to say, has the computing power of 2800 powerful machines. a couple other facts, it better understands human language, which is important in "jeopardy," beca...

Its one of the top super computers in the world. it has 16 tera bites of ram. it requires a whole room for just its server. if you think about the encyclopedia that would be scratching the surface of how much information these computers can hold. >> bill: so you feed information how does it talk to trebek? how does it do that? >> it cant hear. what makes it stand out it can interpret human language which is definitely an innovation. but then it can process it like anything it gets the answer. yo...