Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Unlike computers, which come pre-loaded with software that contains millions of lines of syntax-based programming code, humans aren’t born equipped with any pre-existing language built into our brains. So how do we learn to communicate in the real world using human languages?

To better understand this process, a team of scientists from Italy and the UK has developed a network of artificial neurons designed to replicate what humans do automatically. The new cognitive system is comprised of some 2 million interconnected artificial neurons, which might be a lot less than the hundred billion or so neurons human brains have, but it’s enough for the artificial network to learn how to communicate.

And communicate it has, effectively teaching itself how to converse in human language by engaging in dialogue with a human interlocutor, as the researchers describe in PLOS ONE..

The system has been codenamed ANNABELL, which stands for Artificial Neural Network with Adaptive Behaviour Exploited for Language Learning)....

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