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Artificial Intelligence

image of a computer smiling saying "hi my name is ChatGPT and I am a text-based AI model"

Carolyn Amir July 27, 2023July 26, 2023 AI, Artifical Intelligence, ChatGPT, Large Language Model, LLM, neural network

Does ChatGPT think like a human?

By Carolyn Amir ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to interface with humans, is the ultimate search engine and virtual conversation partner. The AI can improve your computer code,… Read More

Artificial Intelligence Consciousness

Caitlin Goodpaster August 2, 2022August 1, 2022 algorithm, Artificial Intelligence, brain imaging, Computer Science, Dreaming, EEG, fMRI, language, Machine Learning, study of consciousness, Technology, verbal speech

Problems with Assessing Consciousness in the 21st Century

by Caitlin Goodpaster Early this June, a viral story hit the internet—an engineer at Google had claimed an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot named LaMDA was conscious (Tiku, 2022). LaMDA, which… Read More

Artificial Intelligence Big Ideas Brain Books Interviews Learning and Memory

Arielle Hogan July 28, 2021August 9, 2021 Artificial Intelligence, Interviews, Science Communication, Time

Communicating Science: An Interview with Scientist and Author Dr. Dean Buonomano

We are told today that science and technology are progressing at an unprecedented rate, that researchers continue to shovel coal into the runaway train of scientific advancement, not seeing the… Read More

Artificial Intelligence Big Ideas Did You Know?Evolution of Cognition Neuro SciFi Neuroscience Technologies

Arielle Hogan December 7, 2020February 18, 2021 Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, Brain-computer interface, Frontiers in Neural Circuits, Robot-human interaction, Sci-fi

The AMI Procedure- Gateway to a Cyborg Future

Advances in bioengineering and robotics have delivered incredible devices capable of partially restoring functionality to those who suffer from movement related disabilities. However, this technology is not perfect. Patients still… Read More

Artificial Intelligence Big Ideas Collaborations Did You Know?Interviews Neuro News Neuroscience Technologies

Sean Noah October 13, 2020February 18, 2021 Computational, Computational Biology, Education, mathematics, Neuromatch Academy, Skill learning

Neuroscience Education in the Time of COVID-19: An Interview with Dr. Megan Peters about Neuromatch Academy

In March 2020, my research stopped. The cognitive neuroscience lab where I work was shuttered because our research involves collecting behavioral and neuroimaging data from human participants – something impermissible… Read More

Illustration of deep neural networks by Michal Roessler.

Artificial Intelligence Learning and Memory Sensation and Perception

Ioannis Kalfas November 7, 2018November 7, 2018 AI, convolutional neural network, deep learning, Deep neural network, Electrophysiology, inferotemporal cortex, Learning, Machine Learning, neural network, Perception, regression, visual system

How our Visual Neurons relate to Deep Neural Networks

Our brain has been evolving for millions of years, ever-changing and adjusting to handle novel stimuli and conditions, looking like a bag of slimy, gooey matter folded in various ways… Read More

Artificial Intelligence Big Ideas

Sean Noah April 11, 2018March 3, 2019 Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Neural Networks, Hidden Layers, Introspection, Machine Learning, Thoughtful Machines

Machine Yearning: The Rise of Thoughtful Machines

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n the mid twentieth century, artificial intelligence researchers invented a new type of computational system that could detect patterns in images – a daunting task for previous technology. Because this… Read More

Brain Books Artificial Intelligence

Joel Frohlich March 14, 2018May 28, 2018 AGI, AI, alignment problem, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, deep learning, Elon Musk, Integrated Information Theory, Life 3.0, Max Tegmark, Super Intelligence, Tegmark

Book Review: Life 3.0

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n August 2, 2014, Elon Musk (@elonmusk) tweeted, “We need to be super careful with AI. Potentially more dangerous than nukes.” Yet, in the cultural ambience of Hollywood blockbusters, can… Read More

Artificial Intelligence French Multilingual Neuro SciFi Philosophy

Gabrielle Torre November 15, 2017August 8, 2023 AI, androïdes, androids, Artificial Intelligence, artificiellement intelligents, cortical-subcortical networks, Dolores Test, Emotion, facteur g, g factor, Intelligence, L'émotion, l'intelligence, Love, Luiz Pessoa, Philip K. Dick, PKD, réseaux cortico-sous-corticaux, Science Fiction, Westworld

L’intelligence artificielle tombera-t-elle amoureuse?

Traduction en français par Nirosha Murugan. Dans quelques mois, des millions des téléspectateurs vont revenir à Westworld, la série originale de HBO sur les androïdes artificiellement intelligents qui habitent dans… Read More

Artificial Intelligence Neuro SciFi Philosophy

Gabrielle Torre November 15, 2017August 8, 2023 AI, androids, Artificial Intelligence, cortical-subcortical networks, cortico-sous-corticaux, Dolores Test, Emotion, g factor, Intelligence, Love, Luiz Pessoa, Philip K. Dick, PKD, Science Fiction, Westworld

Will Artificial Intelligence Fall in Love?

By Gabrielle Torre In a few months, millions of viewers will return to Westworld, the HBO original series about artificially intelligent androids inhabiting a Western theme park. The show, based… Read More

Neuroscience Technologies Artificial Intelligence Big Ideas Consciousness

Joel Frohlich October 25, 2017November 14, 2023 BBP, Benoit Mandelbrot, Blue Brain Project, complexity, Consciousness, David Marr, emergence, emergent properties, Gehirn, HBP, Henry Markham, human brain project, IBM, Intelligence, levels of analysis, Mandelbort set, Marr's levels of analysis, models, nonlinearity, orphan receptors, Reductionism, reverse engineering, Self-organization, supercomputer, tripartite synapse

Reverse Engineering the Brain

Can we learn everything about the brain by studying individual brain cells? It started with a simple equation. In 1980, a mathematician named Benoit Mandelbrot working for IBM plotted the… Read More

Big Ideas Artificial Intelligence Learning and Memory Neuro SciFi Philosophy

Joel Frohlich May 17, 2017October 29, 2017 2001: A Space Odyssey, AI, Arthur C. Clarke, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Blue, DeepFace, Douglas Hofstadter, Evolution, Facebook, Garry Kasparov, Godel Escher Bach, HAL 9000, Hebb's rule, neural network, Stanley Kubrick, Technology, Turing Test

The Ultimate Thought Experiment Part II: 2001: A Space Odyssey

In our previous post, we considered the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in the context of a thought experiment: a thinking tool used by scientists and… Read More

Artificial Intelligence Big Ideas Consciousness Neuro SciFi Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders Philosophy

Joel Frohlich May 3, 2017October 29, 2017 AI, android, Artificial Intelligence, Blade Runner, China brain, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Gedankenexperiment, Graham Sleight, Hans Christian Oersted, mood organ, Ned Block, Philip K. Dick, pupillometry, Science Fiction, thought experiment

The Ultimate Thought Experiment Part I: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Let’s imagine something crazy. What if each person in China was ordered to simulate a neuron in a brain, making an enormous “China brain?” Every participant in this grand experiment… Read More

Artificial Intelligence Did You Know?Learning and Memory

Joel Frohlich December 9, 2015July 10, 2017 Associative memory, Fusiform face area, Hebb, Hebbian learning, Hopfield network, Inkblot, Magnetoencephalogram, MEG, MRI, pareidolia, Perception, Positive feedback, Rorschach

The Doors of Perception

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite.” – William Blake The friendly headlamps and grill of a car. A sly electrical… Read More

Artificial Intelligence Did You Know?Neuroscience Technologies

Kate Fehlhaber August 19, 2015July 10, 2017 2015, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Computing machinery and intelligence, Eugene Goostman, Geman, Human, Imitation Game, Intelligence, Machine, PNAS, Turing Test, Visual Turing Test

The Turing Test: Is that Human or Machine?

I propose to consider the following question, ‘Can machines think?’ Thus begins Alan Turing’s paper “Computing machinery and intelligence.” It’s 1950 England, and the world’s first computer is being used… Read More

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