Artificial Intelligence Sheds Light on How the Brain Processes Language - Neuroscience News

Summary: Artificial intelligence sheds new light on how the brain processes language. Researchers report the human brain may use next word prediction to drive language processing. In the past few years, artificial intelligence models of language have become very good at certain tasks. Most notably, they excel at predicting the next word in a string of text; this technology helps search engines and texting apps predict the next word you are going to type. The most recent generation of predictive language models also appears to learn something about the underlying meaning of language.