Smart robot that can learn languages

摘要

Inserm and CNRS researchers and the Universite Claude Bernard Lyon have succeeded in developing an "artificial neuronal network" constructed on the basis of a fundamental principle of the workings of the human brain. They have incorporated an artificial brain in a humanoid robot, enabling it to understand what is being said and even anticipate the end of a sentences. The 'simplified' artificial brain system has allowed the robot to learn, and subsequently understand, new sentences containing a new grammatical structure. This technological prowess was made possible by the development of a "simplified artificial brain" that reproduces certain types of so-called "recurrent" connections observed in the human brain.