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New post: things have been moving very fast in AI. But has safety caught up to capabilities? open.substack.com/pub/naix/p/w...

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Any good neuroscience/NeuroAI discord servers I should know about? I feel like the neuroscience town square on bsky is a bit of a ghost town

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Loving the new ICLR blogpost track. Here's a cool one on engrams in neuroscience vs mechanistic interpretability: d2jud02ci9yv69.cloudfront.net/2025-04-28-e...

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Can o3 curate your reading stack? I asked it about last week in NeuroAI, and while not great, it is much better than anticipated, highlighting 3 solid talks/papers and several other reasonable suggestions. I wouldn't be surprised if this was solved in a couple of gens chatgpt.com/share/680bae...

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⚡️ Excited to introduce ZAPBench, our #ICLR2025 spotlight: The Zebrafish Activity Prediction Benchmark measures progress in predicting neural activity within an entire vertebrate brain (70k+ neurons!) Explore interactive visualizations, datasets, code + paper: google-research.github.io/zapbench 🧠🧪

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Excellent talk from Zico Kolter at ICLR on AI safety. Science of deep learning and AI safety are some of the most impactful ways academic AI researchers can bend the curve

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Some fantastic work on the virtual fly www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Thrilled to share our state-of-the-art method for in vivo cell-type classification and brain region localization, NEMO, which is now now a spotlight at @iclr-conf.bsky.social ! We use NEMO to characterize the electrophysiological diversity of cell-types across the entire mouse brain. 🐭 🧪 🧠

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I asked o3 for help with LaTeX quote boxes. This is the example quote it used. The machines are on to us.

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Crowdsourcing this: what are the best examples of scaling laws in foundation models for neuroscience? My top 3 examples: Ctrl+Labs, Sato et al., Mineault et al. @colehurwitz.bsky.social , @mehdiazabou.bsky.social , @nandahkrishna.bsky.social , @averyryoo.bsky.social, @tyrellturing.bsky.social ?

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If GPT-4o walked into a neuro-opthalmology clinic, what would it be diagnosed with? Here we administered 51 tests from 6 clinical and experimental batteries to assess vision in commercial AI models. Very proud to share this first work from @genetang.bsky.social's PhD! arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786

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The Foundation Model crew at #COSYNE2025. With @josueortc.bsky.social , @colehurwitz.bsky.social , @averyryoo.bsky.social , @nandahkrishna.bsky.social , @auschulz.bsky.social

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Another step toward a foundation model of the mouse brain: "Neural Encoding and Decoding at Scale (NEDS)" Trained on neural and behavioral data from 70+ mice, NEDS achieves state-of-the-art prediction of behavior (decoding) and neural responses (encoding) on held-out animals. 🐀

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This is a really interesting (and heroic!) map of "dark matter" in the sciences that should be addressed with new tools and datasets. What's the dark matter of neuroscience?

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Scott Linderman and I ended up on the same panel at #ODIN2025 at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social , wearing the same J Crew shirt. Twins!

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Nice article on MICrONS in the NYTimes from @carlzimmer.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/s...

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Headed to Seattle this week for ODIN workshop at the Allen Institute. Hit me up!

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. @kordinglab.bsky.social 's substack is great. Lots of food for thought from one of the most piercing thinkers in NeuroAI. kording.substack.com/p/why-are-we...

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Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Evolutionary, Collaborative, and Safe Systems. This paper looks wild: 264 pages and 1416 references. arxiv.org/abs/2504.01990

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And that's a wrap for Cosyne, safe and sound in NYC! Always happy to meet friends old and new. So many people thanked me for an old paper, a blog post I wrote, the good research guide, Neuromatch... I will hold on to that gratitude, it means a lot!

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Teddy's project is one of the only clear examples we know of (so far) where modifying the objective function used for training a deep neural network systematically improves neural prediction of IT responses. Come chat at his poster this afternoon at #cosyne2025! (Poster 2-036)

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1/7: Super excited to share our new paper! This one should be of interest to neuroscientists and deep learning theory folks. This paper was a collaboration with Alexandre Payeur, @averyryoo.bsky.social, Thomas Jiralerspong, @mattperich.bsky.social, Luca Mazzucato, @glajoie.bsky.social

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Check out this new article about the amazing new study by @changlabucsf.bsky.social with my 5 cents added.

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Our new paper with Max Taylor-Davies introduces a resource-rational model of Theory of Mind. The model can explain many of the successes and failures of mindreading in human adults and children, and non-human primates. 🧵

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Headed to Mont-Tremblant for COSYNE—looking forward to see everybody!

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Excited to go through this! One day we'll understand how these dang things work

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Fun with worms on @WIRED www.wired.com/story/openwo... We've been thinking about how #celegans can revolutionize science again, together with @kordinglab.bsky.social @eboyden3.bsky.social @wormsense.bsky.social and many other (also find our preprint on #arXiv)

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I am fully aligned with Eva and Blake's vision. I published this piece a couple of weeks ago: www.neuroai.science/p/what-are-f...

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I've got a couple of blog posts in various states of drafting: one on my mental model for AI safety and why I'm more worried now than 6 months ago, one on mech interp, and another one on the coordinated research program/FRO/ambitious science ecosystem. Let me know which one you'd like fast-tracked!

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I like to use a diagram on the second slide of my presentations to help people make sense of my unusual background. Unfortunately, I ran out of space with the old one, and 5 circle Venn diagrams are unwieldy. How about this one?

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How can we make progress in developing a general model of neural computation rather than a series of disjointed models tied to specific experimental circumstances, ask Eva Dyer and @tyrellturing.bsky.social in the latest entry in our NeuroAI series. www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/acce...

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Brains can be more than just a source of inspiration for AI capabilities; they can be a source of inspiration for AI safety, writes @patrickmineault.bsky.social in our NeuroAI series. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/does...

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