Researchers at Meta are working on a new way to understand what’s happening in people’s mind
looked at 169 healthy adult participants who heard stories and sentences read aloud, as scientists recorded their brain activity with various devices .
TIME spoke with Jean Remi King, a research scientist at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, about the goals, challenges, and ethical implications of the study. The research has not yet been peer-reviewed.TIME: In layman’s terms, can you explain what your team set out to do with this research and what was accomplished?
The other big problem is more conceptual in that we actually don’t know how the brain represents language to a large extent. So even if we had a very clear signal, without machine learning, it would be very difficult to say, “OK, this brain activity means this word, or this phoneme, or an intent to act, or whatever.”
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