Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...
Hinton's great philosophical depth here: "The chatbot says "Oh I see, I misunderstood you". So, if it misunderstood [...] what's it doing when it gets it right? It's understanding." QED.
Analogies are scientifically useful: one can transfer knowledge between domains. But what is point of insisting that the brain is a computer, if we need to admit that it is completely different from the kind of computer that we are familiar with? What's the big insight?
Please someone, can you tell Nobel laureate Geoff Hinton how LLMs work? I think he's forgotten.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN6t...
Romain Brette
Lincoln Michel
Book review 📚 How to breathe life back into brain theory
go.nature.com/4dwswFt
Neuroscience needs to stop treating the brain as if it is a computer.
go.nature.com
Nature
I'm trying to follow the logic of our AI lords here, but I'm struggling. So we should massively invest in AI, based on the promise that it will automate all jobs. It works: job apocalypse, the economy is crashed; it doesn't work: financial crash, the economy is crashed. Win-win.
How to breathe life back into brain theory www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Romain Brette
Our work on Trichoplax locomotion and mechanosensing capabilities is out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social.
Congrats Marvin Leria & all co-authors!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1n8Ig3QW8S...
Romain Brette
I finished "The Brain, In Theory" by @romainbrette.bsky.social
It was an amazing read, and now I'm questioning all my beliefs
𝗦𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱
I've shared book suggestions on the brain, conceptual foundations of biology, and much more. Check out the collection from past years.
(interface not perfect at this point).
sparkling-trifle-93b8c9.netlify.app
And now it's out! Happy that PNAS selected for the cover this SEM image snapped by @samjlord.bsky.social, one of the most evocative visualizations of Euplotes that I have ever encountered.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Stay tuned for what is shaping up to be some fascinating follow-up in the lab...
Raphaël Clément
PessoaBrain
Matías Mattamala
Ben Larson
What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Video by Vittorio Boscaro.
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