Studying the brain to build AI that processes language as people do

AI has made impressive strides in recent years, but it's still far from learning language as efficiently as humans. For instance, children learn that "orange" can refer to both a fruit and color from a few examples, but modern AI systems can't do this nearly as efficiently as people. This has led many researchers to wonder: Can studying the human brain help to build AI systems that can learn and reason like people do? Today, Meta AI is announcing a long-term research initiative to better understand how the human brain processes language. 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.