The ancient Egyptians thought so little of brain matter they made a practice of scooping it out through the nose of a dead leader before packing the skull with cloth before burial. They believed ...
What happens if we put a ‘sentient’ AI inside of a lab-grown brain?
At the intersection of synthetic organs, artificial general intelligence, and brain-computer-interfaces lies the future. Let's take a peek!
Neuron News and Research
Researchers at the University of California San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a tiny neural probe ... are usually benign -; meaning they don't spread to ...
How ‘The Dress’ Sparked a Neuroscience Breakthrough
The term comes from statistics and has come to mean any assumption the brain carries ... because the brain does a little Photoshopping to help us in situations where differing lighting conditions ...
Not All AI Is Created Equal: How To Select The Right Type For Your Business Needs
Deep learning is a subcategory of machine learning that uses a neural network approach ... has been introduced, it leaves an imprint that the AI can recall. This makes it effective for rules ...
The Primate Mind
The study of animal cognition traditionally focused on basic processes, such as classical conditioning, orientation, memory, imprinting, and the like, that applied to a wide range of species. Over the ...
What if an Artificial Intelligence program actually becomes sentient?
If an AI program became sentient, would the law apply to AI just as it does to humans? NPR's A Martinez asks law professor Ifeoma Ajunwa to imagine the legal implications for sentient AI.
On the age of computation in the epoch of humankind
A recent book outlining the Great Acceleration does not even mention the digital ... the operation of platforms and neural nets, all devices always switched on. The digital golem’s hunger ...
Silence for thought
This is what the human brain has developed!” But what could this mean? Theoretical work has suggested that such networks of silencers can prolong the time over which recent events can be kept in the ...
Technology news
Taibai Li, Xiang Ge, and their colleagues from School of Materials and Metallurgy, Guizhou University have reported the efficient closed-loop recycling of the cathode material lithium cobalt oxide ...
Neuroenology: How the Brain Creates the Taste of Wine
Shepherd shows, just as he did inNeurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, that creating the taste of wine engages more of the brain than does any other human ... is used to ...
