Opinion by Viorica Marian: AI could hasten the extinction of languages — and ways of thinking
, a number that shrinks every year. How many will there be after large language artificial intelligence models such as ChatGPT-4, and their more powerful successors, entrench themselves in our lives?
AI language models are trained on enormous amounts of data — from the books, journals, newspapers and online content available. The more data, the better. But what’s available to train a model varies widely across the thousands of languages used today. In experiments in my lab at Northwestern University and others, we see that people who speak different languages make different eye movements and have different brain activity. Different things in the environment capture their attention; their memories and interpretation of the world and of reality vary. Those who speak many languages have somewhat different neural networks activated by each.Reality as each of us perceives it is a subjective experience.
When responding in a native language, 20 percent of people opt to sacrifice one person to save five. Responding in a second language, 33 percent do so. ThisBut just when new brain imaging and computational science are beginning to give us insight into why the multilingual mind works the way it does, we are setting a course that might eliminate one of its core features.Two things. First, AI research, development and use should be regulated in the public interest.
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