National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"
Hello, language hackers! 👋 Have you ever wondered how a computer understands that ‘coffee’ and “tea” are almost the same thing, but ‘tractor’ is from another planet altogether? ☕️🚜 The secret lies in vector embeddings! Applied linguistics turns every word Read more
So, AI detectives, are you ready to find out the truth? 🎊🧐 Most of you pointed to phrase #3… and you are RIGHT! 🎉 The robot gave itself away! 🤖☕️ Although the phrase about ‘electric sheep’ is a cool reference Read more
Hello, language hackers! 👋 Shall we try our hand at being cyber detectives? 🕵️♂️✨ Today, we will test whether you can distinguish between ‘live’ text and the work of a neural network. We have prepared three sentences. Two of them Read more
Last Thursday, 15 January 2026, the team from the Department of Intelligent Computer Systems visited one of the most innovative institutions in Kharkiv — the Boiko School. Our goal was ambitious: to show students that artificial intelligence is not magic Read more
Here are our ‘chameleon words’: 🟢 LEARNING: From school desks 🎒, we moved on to machine learning. Today, this word is more often used in the context of algorithms. 🟢 CACHE: It used to be just a hiding place 📦, Read more
Hello, linguistic community! ✨ Have you ever thought that words are living organisms 🦎 that migrate and change colour? Applied linguistics, with the help of corpus analysis, allows us to see exactly when and how a word has changed its Read more
When we ask ChatGPT🤖 a question or use a translator on our smartphone, we don’t even think about who taught the machine to understand human language.🤔 The answer is simple — applied linguists!💻 Applied and computational linguistics is a field Read more
As part of the Kahoot! is back! project, our Department of Intelligent Computer Systems (ICS) held an interactive quiz entitled ‘AI — Imba or Just Hype?’ The event brought together dozens of inquisitive schoolchildren both online and in the safe Read more
You guys are awesome! 💪 It’s time to reveal our cards and see what the ‘semantic vector space’ has predicted for us: 1️⃣ Snow – Cold + Programme = ALGORITHM ❄️⚙️ Explanation: When we remove the physical sensation of winter Read more
You’ve been waiting for this! Instead of boring lectures, there will be exciting quizzes, cool prizes, and gamified science. From 5 to 9 January, we’re diving into the winter intensive course ‘Kahoot! is back!’ ❄️🚀 What’s in store for you? Read more