Meta’s new long-term AI study sounds

Meta recently announced a long-term research partnership to study the human brain. According to the company, it intends to use the results of this study to “guide the development of AI that processes speech and text as efficiently as people.”

This is the latest in Meta’s ongoing quest to perform the machine learning equivalent of alchemy: producing thought from language.

The big idea: Meta wants to understand exactly what’s going on in people’s brains when they process language. Then, somehow, it’s going to use this data to develop an AI capable of understanding language.

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