Artificial intelligence can understand complicated meanings of words

Researchers have found that artificial intelligence (AI) can understand the complex meanings of words the way humans do. The researchers discovered a simple underlying trick through which machines accomplish the feat, and represent the meanings of words in a manner that correlates with human judgement. The AI system investigated by the researchers has been used to study word meanings over the past decade, by'reading' vast amounts of content on the internet, covering billions of words. The system learns that words that appear frequently together, such as'table' and'chair' have similar meanings, while words that appear rarely together, such as'planet' and'chair' have very different meanings. The AI however, appeared to have one major limitation.