Your Brain Uses 'Autocorrect' To Decipher Language and AI Just Helped Us Prove It, New Study Says - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Debrief: How do we how know to speak and to read? These essential questions led to new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that uses AI models to examine how and why our brains understand language. Oddly enough, your brain may work just like your smartphone's autocorrect feature. The new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that the function of these AI language models resembles the method of language processing in the human brain, suggesting that the human brain may use next-word prediction to drive language processing. In this new study, a team of researchers at MIT analyzed 43 different language models, many of which were optimized for next-word prediction.