Human versus Machine Part 2: Learning skills

Learning to speak a new language brings health benefits and in addition we could be predisposed to speak more than one language, new research suggests. In this spirit multilingualism has shown to have social, psychological and lifestyle advantages as well as direct health benefits like faster recovery from a stroke or delaying dementía. Something that could mean that to reach your brain's full potential and to "empower" it, multilingualism is a great practice. This is at the same time a practice that brings a lot of "headache" for artificial intelligence. As Will Knight, senior editor for AI and robotics at MIT Technology Review writes: "There's an obvious problem with applying deep learning to language. It's that words are arbitrary symbols, and as such they are fundamentally different from imagery."