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.
According to Meta AI, the company spent the past two years developing an AI system to process datasets of brainwave information in order to glean insights into how the brain handles communication.
Now, the company’s working with research partners to create its own databases.
