The human brain may work more like AI than anyone expected

A new study suggests that the human brain understands spoken language through a stepwise process that closely resembles how advanced AI language models operate. By recording brain activity from people listening to a spoken story, researchers found that later stages of brain responses match deeper layers of AI systems, especially in well known language regions like Broca's area. The results call into question long standing rule-based ideas of language comprehension and are supported by a newly released public dataset that offers a powerful new way to study how meaning is formed in the brain.