real-time word prediction
Real-Time Word Prediction, AI, & Our Brains
Much work has been done within artificial intelligence (AI) to better understand how the human brain works to make AI more efficient. When you use a search on Google or Amazon, or you type on a phone or tablet, a piece of technology known as predictive language model is being used. This AI-driven functionality is what allows technology to be able to predict the next word within a string of text. The most recent generation of these predictive language models also learns the underlying meaning of languages, such as question answering or story completion. Could these AI next-word prediction models provide insight into how the brain processes language? This is what a team of cognitive neuroscientists from MIT wanted to explore.