Building AI That Processes Language as People Do

Today, we're announcing a long-term AI research initiative to better understand how the human brain processes speech and text. In collaboration with neuroimaging center Neurospin (CEA) and Inria, we're comparing how AI language models and the brain respond to the same spoken or written sentences. We'll use insights from this work to guide the development of AI that processes speech and text as efficiently as people. Over the past two years, we've applied deep learning techniques to public neuroimaging data sets to analyze how the brain processes words and sentences. AI has made impressive strides in recent years, but it's still far from learning language as efficiently as humans.