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The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience
The Future Brain is a destination for curious minds who want to understand how the convergence of artificial intelligence, neuroscience and innovative technologies will shape the future. It's a series of regularly published articles written by Cami Rosso, an interdisciplinary writer on innovation, science and leadership.
Novel AI Model Predicts Breast Cancer as well as Doctors | IBM Research’s algorithm uses data from both mammograms and health records.
Stanford Unveils AI Tool for Finding Brain Aneurysms | Deep learning helps clinicians identify brain aneurysms with better accuracy.
New Neuroscience Discovery May Disrupt Biology | Study shows that nervous system cells can transmit information to progeny.
New AI Device Detects Both Vaping and Bullying in Schools | Deep Learning algorithm able to sense e-cigarettes and bullying.
Trends in Applied AI and Precision Oncology | Precision Medicine is having its moment in the fight against cancer.
Atlas of Breast Cancer Ecosystem Made by AI Machine Learning | Swiss researchers apply AI to create a resource for future precision medicine.
Can AI Fight the Deadly Fungus Among Us? | CDC calls Candida auris a global health threat.
UT Austin Scientists Create Human-like AI Computer Vision | New AI deep learning algorithm “sees the big picture” from only a few glances.
New AI Method Cuts Deep Learning Training up to 69 Percent | “Adaptive Deep Reuse” method speeds AI production without loss of accuracy.
New Twist on AI Evolutionary Algorithms in Neuroscience | IBM’s biologically motivated machine learning accelerates brain research.
MIT's AI Spots Breast Cancer up to Half a Decade in Advance |New deep learning model by MIT CSAIL Predicts Breast Cancer Risk
Historic Global AI Agreement Achieved by OECD | First intergovernmental OECD standard on AI adopted.
Brain Cells React to Optogenetics like Huntington’s disease | The axis of neuroscience, AI, optics, genetics and IBM Cloud.
New Brain-like Photonic Chip Able to “Learn” from Light | Cutting-edge neuromorphic chip uses photons instead of electrons.
Artificial Intelligence Shows Human-like "Number Sense" | New AI milestone may help advance Artificial General Intelligence.
The World’s First Particle Robot - How the Art of Robotics Imitates Life | Recently a team of researchers a new genre of robots comprised of particles that individually cannot move independently, but collectively behave like a biological system.
How AI can Help Children with Anxiety and Depression | University of Vermont researchers create AI voice screening tool for children.
New Biomarker Discovered for “Chemobrain” | Discovery may help cancer patients in chemotherapy with cognitive issues.
AI Brain Device Reduces Need for CT Scans by Over 30 Percent | First FDA-cleared device uses AI to assess full spectrum of brain injuries
Artificial Intelligence Reveals What the Brain Wants to See | Harvard Medical School uses AI to study the brain’s visual process.
How Roundworms May Help PTSD Sufferers One Day | Optogenetics shines a light on the physiology of associative memories.
New Theory of How the Brain’s Neurons Process Information | Research on how neurons respond to touch challenges existing neuroscience.
World’s First AI Tool to Grade Woman’s Eggs for IVF | Canadian biotech uses AI to predicts IVF egg fertilization with 90 percent accuracy.
Stanford AI Predicts Cholesterol-raising Genetic Disease | Algorithm enables precision medicine to prevent strokes and heart attacks.
Artificial Synapses may Enable AI on Small Computing Devices | Neuromorphic designed to mimic the brain’s speed and efficiency.
Neuroscientists transform Brain Activity to Speech with AI | UCSF Neuroscientists use AI to generate speech from brain recordings.
Will One Small Step for AI, be One Giant Leap for Robotics? | Robot learns to walk by itself using artificial intelligence.
AI Surpasses Neuroscientists in Spotting Neurons | Duke University’s AI deep learning tracks neurons faster and better than humans.
AI Diagnoses PTSD by Voice with High Precision | NYU School of Medicine's post-traumatic stress disorder voice analysis tool
Using AI to Unravel the Complexity of Collective Behavior | A new machine learning model for collective behavior of living organisms.
Yale Neuroscientists Partially Revive Pig Brains After Death | Researchers reinstate some pig brain activity hours post-mortem.
How the Future of AI is impacted by a Horse from the 1800s | The Intersect of AI, Behavioral Psychology and … a “Clever” Horse.
AI’s Paradox: The Unsolvable Problem of Machine Learning | How a logical paradox impacts the future of artificial intelligence.
The Symbiotic Nature of AI and Neuroscience | Neuroscience and artificial intelligence (AI) are two very different scientific disciplines that share a significant problem, and future opportunities.
New AI system May Help Cancer Chemo Patients | In a recent scientific-first, researchers from the University of California, and the University of Surrey deployed network analysis using artificial intelligence to provide insights on the unrelieved symptoms that cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy treatment experience.
15 Future AI Startups | AI will spark a future boom for pioneering entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors, and forward-thinking corporations. Artificial intelligence will give rise to entirely new types of businesses both for consumers and corporations alike. Here are fifteen potential new industries that AI automation may create in the future.
20 Future Jobs AI May Create | The boom in artificial intelligence will create a number of new occupations that currently do not exist today. Here are twenty potential new jobs that AI automation may create in the future.
Human mind directs cyborg rats via brain-to-brain interface | Researchers have developed a brain-to-brain interface that enables a human brain to efficiently guide a rat to navigate in a complex environment with thoughts.
AI Interprets What Rodents are Saying | Last month, researchers in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Science department at the University of Washington School of Medicine announced the creation of “DeepSqueak,” a deep learning system that can detect and analyze the vocalizations of rodents.
A revolutionary way to peek at neurons deep inside the brain | MIT creates new method for deep, intracellular noninvasive brain imaging.
How AI and Genomics are used to treat Epilepsy | AI and genomics are being deployed to help those suffering from epilepsy. Solutions for epilepsy that use AI include personalized medicine, seizure management, and drug discovery.
Neuroscientists Discover a New Brain Reward System | Columbia University's neuroscientists announced a new discovery that alters commonly held views on the brain’s reward learning system. Reward learning is not confined to select brain regions—the brain initiates learning complex associations at the somatosensory cortex, the area that handles the sense of touch.
Space 2.0—Stanford Using AI to democratize Space | Researchers from Stanford University’s Space Rendezvous Laboratory (SLAB) announced a plan to crowdsource artificial intelligence (AI) to solve the massive problem of orbiting space debris.
AI2 Creates World’s First AI to Play a Pictionary-like Game | Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) announced the world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) system that is able to collaboratively play an interactive online game inspired by Pictionary called “Iconary” with humans. Dr. Oren Etzioni, CEO of AI2, says it’s “a compelling demonstration of machine common sense.”
Neuromorphic Computing Breakthrough May Disrupt AI | Neuromorphic computing is an interdisciplinary endeavor that draws upon physics, mathematics, electronic engineering, biology, computer science and neuroscience, in order to create artificial neural systems that resemble the architecture in the brain. A team of scientists from Linköping University in Sweden recently made a breakthrough in neuromorphic computing by engineering a new learning transistor, and published their findings yesterday in Advanced Science.
A Primer on AI Machine Learning | Chances are that you are already using services powered by artificial intelligence (AI) every day. But what exactly powers machine learning? Let’s take a look at the engine under AI machine learning’s hood.
Google and Facebook AI make New Linguistics Discovery | At the intellectual crossroads of science and humanities is linguistics, the scientific study of language. Language is one the most fundamental defining characteristics of humans, and yet its origin remains a scientific mystery not only to linguists, but also psychologists, neuroscientists, anthropologists, biologists, and archaeologists. Researchers from Google AI, Facebook AI, and New York University deployed AI deep learning to simulate and understand the emergent phenomena of language.
Stanford Neuroscientists May Revolutionize Pain Management | How the brain processes and responds to pain’s sensory signal is a disagreeable and uncomfortable emotional experience. In January 2019, scientists Grégory Scherrer, Mark Schnitzer, Dong Wang, Benjamin Grewe, Biafra Ahanonu, and Gregory Corder from Stanford University published a neuroscience study in Science that identifies the cells in the brain that are responsible for the emotional “unpleasantness” of pain.
A Glossary of Math Terms for Artificial Intelligence | Key math concepts for AI and data science explained.
Neuroscience Breakthrough: AI Translates Thought-to-Speech | Researchers at the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University in New York City announced “a scientific first” with their invention of a brain-computer interface (BCI) that translate human thought into speech with higher clarity and precision than existing solutions.
Innovative AI Breath Analyzer Diagnoses Diseases by “Smell” | By applying cross-disciplinary innovative technologies from the fields of artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and molecular chemistry, diagnosing a wide variety of diseases may be as simple and non-invasive as a breath analysis using a handheld device in the not-so-distant future.
New Discovery on How the Brain Filters Visual Information | In a recent study led by The Salk Institute published in Neuron on December 31, 2018, researchers made a surprising discovery that counters the commonly-held view among neuroscientists on how the brain’s neurons filters what it sees.
How AI and Quantum Computing May Alter Humanity’s Future | Making quantum computing accessible will help accelerate progress in artificial intelligence. But is quantum computing actually more powerful than today’s classical computers?
The Achilles' Heel of AI Computer Vision | Computer vision has a problem–it only takes slight changes in data input to fool machine learning algorithms into “seeing” things wrong.
How Smart is Artificial Intelligence? | Artificial intelligence has come a long way in recent years, from enabling autonomous vehicles to predicting depression from speech. How does AI measure up versus the human brain?
What Caused the AI Renaissance | Artificial intelligence is not a new concept, with its origins dating back to the 1950s. Yet AI has only recently emerged to the forefront of investment interest from industry, government, and venture capital after decades of relative dormancy. What contributed to the thawing of AI’s winter and current boom?
AI created in DNA-based Artificial Neural Networks | Pioneering researchers led by Dr. Lulu Qian at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created synthetic biochemical circuits that are able to perform information processing at the molecular level–an artificial neural network consisting of DNA instead of computer hardware and software.
New AI Method Wins Coveted NeurIPS Award | A team of AI researchers from the University of Toronto and the Vector Institute of Toronto, Canada, won a “Best Paper Award” for “Neural Ordinary Differential Equations”—one out of just four papers selected from the many thousands of scientific papers submitted to one of the largest conferences focused on artificial intelligence.
Can an “AI Physicist” Outperform Einstein? | A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that deploys centuries old heuristics of physicists to derive laws of physics from complex, simulated worlds. Can a machine learning physicist understand the natural laws of our world better than a human physicist?
What Your Stacks of Unread Books Say About You | There are many possible reasons why you have a stack of unread books. It is not uncommon. The Japanese have a specific term for a pile of purchased, but unread reading materials: tsundoku.
Polymath Jamie Metzl on AI, Genetics, and the Future | Jamie Metzl, J.D., Ph.D., a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, former White House Fellow, and Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, is a true polymath—the technology futurist, geopolitical expert, prolific author, syndicated columnist, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, media commentator, and endurance athlete, is one of the most fascinating, and accomplished persons you will ever encounter.
How AI and Genomics Can Help Fight Antibiotic Resistance | The CDC estimates AMR’s economic impact in the U.S. to be more than $20 billion in direct healthcare costs, plus $35 billion in lost productivity, for a total of $55 billion annually. Through the work of pioneering scientists and researchers, innovative technologies such as AI machine learning and genomics are being applied in hopes of helping humanity in the future.
Top 5 Tips from Navy SEALs on Exceptional Leadership | Not everyone can become a Navy SEAL. However, anyone, including psychologists, CEOs, athletes, startup entrepreneurs, crisis counselors, mental health professionals, business executives, neurosurgeons, emergency room physicians, first responders, and even stay-at-home parents can benefit by applying insights from Navy SEAL leadership when facing extremely challenging problems.
Rachel Thomas on Making AI Accessible | Rachel Thomas, Co-Founder of fast.ai, presented a novel way to make AI accessible to a wide range of people from all backgrounds, not just from the elite institutions – in effect, disrupting the learning of AI deep learning.
Can AI and Genomics Extend the Human Lifespan? | Innovative companies are finding ways to integrate AI and genomics with mature medical diagnostic technologies to offer proactive, versus reactive health care. One such company is investor-backed Human Longevity, Inc. (HLI), a genomic-based, health intelligence company founded in 2013 by Dr. J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, M.D., and Dr. Robert Hariri, M.D., Ph.D., based in San Diego, California.
BRAIN Initiative Receives Funding by NIH | The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced on November 2, 2018, that it would increase funding of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative by $220 million.
World’s Largest Neuromorphic Supercomputer Activated | British scientists at The University of Manchester made history by switching on the world’s largest “human brain” supercomputer called the “Spiking Neural Network Architecture” (SpiNNaker) machine.
Neuroscience Discovers the Brain's Neural Clock | Scientists discovered that the region where the brain is time-stamping our experiences is in the lateral entorhinal cortex. The brain uses changes in the environment to determine how much time has elapsed—the less activity, the more difficult it is for the brain to create a time signal. The researchers discovered that by changing activities in an experience, you can alter the time signal in the brain and change how the brain perceives time itself.
The Funding Spree for Neuroscience Startups | Venture capitalists, angel investors, and pharmaceutical companies are making significant investments in neuroscience startups in hopes of discovering methods for early disease detection, innovative treatments, and even potential cures for brain-related diseases and disorders in the future.
A Key Survival Skill in an AI Future — The Personal Pivot | Within the coming decade and years to follow, automation fueled by artificial intelligence (AI) will displace jobs and create employment uncertainty. If data is the new oil, then artificial intelligence is the engine that will run the future. The one essential skill that everyone will need to learn in order to survive in a future with AI automation is how to pivot like an entrepreneur.
New Theory of Intelligence May Disrupt AI and Neuroscience | Technologist, scientist, and co-founder of Numenta, Jeff Hawkins, presented an innovative framework for understanding how the human neocortex operates, called “The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence.” The framework redefines how the human neocortex functions. According to the researchers, the neocortex contains thousands of models functioning not only in hierarchy, but also in parallel. It’s an innovative theory that challenges conventional views and may impact both artificial intelligence and neuroscience in the future.
Neuroscientists Discover a New Type of Brain Cell | Researchers from the University of Szeged, the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the J. Craig Venter Institute, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Illumina, and the University of California, San Diego collaborated on this historic discovery of the rosehip neuron.
How Stem Cell Innovation Has Advanced Neuroscience Research | From the initial discovery of stem cells in mice to growing 3D human neural networks models from pluripotent stem cells in less than 40 years, the pace of scientific advancement has been exponential. The tools that neuroscience uses for research are evolving in sophistication, and stem cells play an important role in the acceleration of progress to benefit humanity.
What Children Need to Learn in a Future Impacted by AI | What do you do in an uncertain future? Here are some tips that can help enable your child to learn the skills that she or he needs to flourish in a future impacted by AI.
The Human Brain Is Active up to 5 Minutes After Heart Stops | In the United States, all 50 states have legally defined death with neurological criteria, according to The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Now scientists have observed that the human brain, like many other body parts, does not stop working immediately after the heart stops beating and may still function for up to five minutes afterward.
Why Does the Human Brain Exhibit Higher Intelligence? | A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Massachusetts General Hospital discovered distinct characteristics of the human neuron that may help explain why human brains are more powerful than other species.
MIT Invests a Record $1 Billion in a College for AI | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, U.S.A., made history in by announcing a commitment of $1 billion to “address the global opportunities and challenges presented by the prevalence of computing and the rise of artificial intelligence.
Defining Artificial Intelligence: A Glossary of Key AI Terms | Important AI terminology explained.
Is the Robot Psychologist the Next Big AI App? | Will robot psychologists be commonplace one day? Is this even a good idea?
Paul Allen's Immense Legacy | Throughout his lifetime, Allen was a generous person who has donated over $2 billion to support research and innovation in artificial intelligence, neuroscience, science, technology, education, conservation and more causes. Paul G. Allen lived an extraordinary, and full life—his endeavors will leave a lasting impact on humanity now and in the future.
MIT Creates AI That Predicts Depression From Speech | An innovative Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research team consisting of Tuka Alhanai and James Glass at CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), and Mohammad Ghassemi at IMES (Institute for Medical Engineering and Science), discovered a way for AI to detect depression in individuals through identifying patterns in natural conversation.
What Innovative CEOs and Leaders Need to Know about AI | It’s not a question of whether or not AI should be incorporated in your company, but rather when it should be implemented. Where is AI in the technology adoption life-cycle? Where is AI being used and how? Here is an executive summary of what a few of the leading global management consulting companies have to say about how artificial intelligence will impact businesses and economies worldwide.
Breakthrough Microbiome Study Links Gut with Neurobehaviors | In a landmark 2018 study published in Molecular Psychiatry, a team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and the University of Toyama, found that “changes in gut microbiota can control brain insulin signaling and metabolite levels,” which in turn impacts neurobehaviors.
Stanford Physicists Create AI to Disrupt Laws of Nature | Stanford physicists applied Zellig S. Harris’ hypothesis on the distributional structure of language to atoms instead of words ... with interesting results.
NSF awards an interdisciplinary approach to neuroscience | Neuroscience and cognitive science researchers get $16 million in NSF funding | Modern science has yet to explain exactly how the human brain functions. In efforts to advance scientific understanding of the brain, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced in September 2018, the funding of 18 innovative interdisciplinary projects in neuroscience and cognitive science.
Neuroscience advances towards a “Social Network of Brains” | BrainNet enables multi-person direct brain-to-brain communications | Imagine engaging with others on social media over the cloud using only the thoughts in your brain to communicate — no texting, typing, or speech required. A recent neuroscientific breakthrough is ushering a new phase in the evolution of brain-to-brain interface (BBI) that accelerates the possibility of a “Social Network of Brains” over the internet.
Is Artificial Intelligence Antifragile? The Iatrogenic potential of human intervention in artificial intelligence | As AI becomes increasingly pervasive, it is important to examine at a macro level whether AI gains from disorder. Antifragile is a term and concept put forth by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. According to Taleb, antifragile things not only “gain from chaos,” but also “need it in order to survive and flourish.” Is AI antifragile? The answer may not be as intuitive as it seems.
World Economic Forum Reports AI to Disrupt Financial Systems | Artificial intelligence is poised to significantly disrupt the global financial services system, creating both new opportunities and increased vulnerabilities.
Brain-Computer Interfaces and Neuroscience | Can technology read your mind? Dr. Divya Chander, M.D., Ph.D., has a surprising answer to that question. Dr. Chander is a neuroscientist and physician on the faculty at both Stanford University and Singularity University.
The Science and Philosophy of Consciousness | Consciousness is one of the unsolved mysteries that great thinkers across many disciplines have attempted to elucidate. As complex as the human mind, so is the nature of consciousness.
How Artificial Intelligence Is Accelerating Life Sciences | The pharmaceutical and biotech industries are ripe for disruption. Startups and corporate behemoths alike are investing in artificial intelligence technology solutions.
The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence and "Esports" | The market opportunity for AI is a wide-open playing field in the booming e-sports industry. Esports will reach $3 bn and attract as many viewers as the NFL by 2022.
The Future of AI in Health Care | Artificial intelligence expert Neil Jacobstein shares his views on how AI is poised to change health care.
How "Westworld" Ignites the Deep Thinkers Among Us | "Westworld" raises many philosophical questions on the potential impact of human-like robots powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
20 Great Quotes on Artificial Intelligence | Here are twenty of the best quotes on artificial intelligence from notable thinkers.
The Geopolitics of AI | Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a strategic imperative with various nations announcing centralized plans and initiatives to remain globally competitive.
Is Artificial General Intelligence a Mathematical Pattern? | What if the key to unlocking artificial general intelligence is a pattern that already exists, but has yet to be discovered?
Why Neuroscience Is Trending in Business | Neuroscience is trending in business as neuroscientist Jordan Amadio helps start the world's first neurotechnology accelerator, NeuroLaunch.
Why AI Will Not Completely Replace Humans Anytime Soon | Why recently some customers of Amazon Echo running conversational AI technology Alexa, have experienced creepy, unexpected laughter from their devices at random times.
How to Outwit AI | A high IQ doesn’t guarantee success, and having superior capabilities in AI does not necessarily equate to societal success. It depends on how it’s applied and for what purpose.
AI’s Deep Problem | Artificial intelligence is modeled to some extent on the human brain; and there’s a deep problem with this approach.
The Human Bias in the AI Machine | The increasing pervasiveness of AI necessitates the minimization of human cognitive bias in the machine. The future of humanity may very well depend on it.
The Unbearable Conundrum of AI Consciousness | As artificial intelligence becomes as cognitively powerful as humans, can machines become self-aware?
Why Psychology Is Essential in a Future Dominated by AI | In a future where artificial intelligence (AI) is ubiquitous, psychology will help people cope with the uncertainty and change.
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