ConlangCrafter Turns AI to Imagining Languages

There are over 7,000 natural languages today, but that doesn’t stop people from occasionally making up completely new ones. These constructed languages, or conlangs , include Dothraki , Klingon , and various Elvish languages . Now, an AI model called ConlangCrafter is also capable of generating new languages—and it is particularly good at it. In a paper published 27 June in the Proceedings of the Association of Computer Linguists, researchers analyzed ConlangCrafter’s language generation abilities, reporting that it can develop a diverse array of novel languages that consistently abide by their rules. How ConlangCrafter Creates New Languages In previous work, Gašper Beguš , an associate professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, showed how large language models (LLMs) can analyze languages to the same extent as most humans. In his most recent endeavour, he set out to push the language boundaries of AI models even further. “Creating an…