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A neuroscientist explains why it’s impossible for AI to ‘understand’ language

By Veena D. Dwivedi, Director – Centre for Neuroscience; Professor - Psychology | Neuroscience, Brock University

Describing artificial intelligence as having neural networks and understanding language has implications for how we understand both AI and the human brain.

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