BI 200 Grace Hwang and Joe Monaco: The Future of NeuroAI

BI 200 Grace Hwang and Joe Monaco: The Future of NeuroAI

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BI 200 Grace Hwang and Joe Monaco: The Future of NeuroAI
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Joe Monaco and Grace Hwang  co-organized a recent workshop I participated in, the 2024 BRAIN NeuroAI Workshop. You may have heard of the BRAIN Initiative, but in case not, BRAIN is is huge funding effort across many agencies, one of which is the National Institutes of Health, where this recent workshop was held. The BRAIN Initiative began in 2013 under the Obama administration, with the goal to support developing technologies to help understand the human brain, so we can cure brain based diseases.

BI 199 Hessam Akhlaghpour: Natural Universal Computation

BI 199 Hessam Akhlaghpour: Natural Universal Computation

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BI 199 Hessam Akhlaghpour: Natural Universal Computation
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Hessam Akhlaghpour is a postdoctoral researcher at Rockefeller University in the Maimon lab. His experimental work is in fly neuroscience mostly studying spatial memories in fruit flies. However, we are going to be talking about a different (although somewhat related) side of his postdoctoral research. This aspect of his work involves theoretical explorations of molecular computation, which are deeply inspired by Randy Gallistel and Adam King’s book Memory and the Computational Brain.

BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI

BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI

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BI 198 Tony Zador: Neuroscience Principles to Improve AI
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We’re in a huge AI hype cycle right now, for good reason, and there’s a lot of talk in the neuroscience world about whether neuroscience has anything of value to provide AI engineers – and how much value, if any, neuroscience has provided in the past.

BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think

BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think

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BI 197 Karen Adolph: How Babies Learn to Move and Think
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Karen Adolph runs the Infant Action Lab at NYU, where she studies how our motor behaviors develop from infancy onward. We discuss how observing babies at different stages of development illuminates how movement and cognition develop in humans, how variability and embodiment are key to that development, and the importance of studying behavior in real-world settings as opposed to restricted laboratory settings.

BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød

BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød

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BI 196 Cristina Savin and Tim Vogels with Gaute Einevoll and Mikkel Lepperød
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