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seanescola.bsky.social
Came for the neuro; stayed for the AI
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At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years. Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.

submitted 12 days ago • 1641 comments

(1/30) New preprint! "Symmetries and continuous attractors in disordered neural circuits" with Larry Abbott and Haim Sompolinsky bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Remember how, when the lockdowns started, every organization said "we only have two weeks of cash on hand and will shut down if we don't get assistance"? That's basically happening to every single lab and NGO right now, except for no actual reason.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Worth also pointing out that there are many "tests so easy no AI system can pass them". Moravec's paradox remains. E.g., arxiv.org/abs/2404.12390

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

🚀 Calling all visionary scientists and engineers! Announcing our call for Focused Research Organization proposals in the UK. 🔬Submit your concept paper by Feb 7 & full proposal by March 28. More here: www.convergentresearch.org/frost-uk ⤵️

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

So, they set up the ARC prize specifically to have limits on how much compute you can use, required the submissions to be open-sourced, and then OpenAI just went ahead and crushed it with >$1m of compute from a closed model with no idea how it works anyway? Do I have that right?

submitted 66 days ago • 7 comments

I like this definition (although it’s not the one I’ve typically espoused). It basically says that #NeuroAI is intelligence science writ large. And the name works because our current options for intelligence are either neural or artificial

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

Have a read of @davidamarkowitz.bsky.social’s proposal to accelerate intelligence science with new institutions in @thetransmitter.bsky.social #NeuroAI

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Estimate from @mbeisen.bsky.social that about $1.5B (3%) of the $50B NIH budget goes to publishing fees. If we are looking to cut government waste, this might be a good place to start.

submitted 86 days ago • 5 comments

The magnum opus drops!

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments