Emerging Synergy Between AI And Neuroscience

Posted: 5/5/2019

For lack of time, I will have to keep it short!

Just read Machine Learning Optimizes Images for Stimulating Monkey Neurons Neural networks generate abstract images designed to activate particular cells, lending insight into their function.

Here is another, closely related article: An AI used art to control monkeys’ brain cells Such tailored regulation of neural activity could lead to new types of neuroscience experiments

From what I understand, these latest experiments have overcome a 50 year long block in progress on how a primate brains perceives images and what neurons are triggered or which neurons at what location react and how they react. Thus, the combination of better sensors implanted in brains and AI is driving progress here. The potential for new diagnostics and therapies could be enormous!

This is very exciting stuff! Stay tuned!

P.S.

Please remember and pray for the many animals used in experimentation! (I posted about that here)

These shall not have died in vain (to borrow from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address)!