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AIE Webinar — Making Horsegirls

Go behind the scenes of the acclaimed independent film Horsegirls with the creative team that brought this remarkable story to life. Join moderator, Devin Morrissey as he is joined by writer and director Lauren Meyering, lead actress Lillian Carrier, producers Michael Sherman, Mackenzie Breeden, and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Autism Sensitivity Coordinator Chloe Estelle for an engaging conversation about the filmmaking process—from developing the story and creating authentic performances to producing, promoting, and ensuring an inclusive production environment.

Whether you’re interested in filmmaking, storytelling, or advancing authentic representation of neurodivergent individuals in entertainment, this webinar offers a unique opportunity to hear directly from the talented team behind Horsegirls.

The Godfather of AI: A New Species Is Emerging — And We Can’t Stop It | Geoffrey Hinton (Nobel)

In this exclusive, long-form interview, Turing Award laureate Geoffrey Hinton—often called the “Godfather of Deep Learning”—opens up about the promise and peril of advanced AI. Hinton explains why he left Google, how close we really are to artificial general intelligence (AGI), and what guard-rails governments, researchers, and ordinary citizens can put in place today to keep powerful neural networks from going off the rails.

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Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist best known as the “godfather of deep learning.” As a professor at the University of Toronto and co-founder of Google Brain, he pioneered modern neural networks—work that earned him the 2018 Turing Award alongside Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio. Since leaving Google in 2023, Hinton has focused on warning about the societal and existential risks of increasingly powerful AI systems.

Unlike other organisms

Unlike other organisms, Clytia medusae can repair damage so rapidly you can actually watch small wounds close within minutes.

Larger wounds heal in less than an hour, a rate of recovery humans can only dream of. And no scar tissue is formed.

These traits make Clytia a unique window into wound healing. The medusae are transparent, allowing researchers to watch cells move in live animals in real time. Their wounds heal rapidly, and unlike mammals there is no immune system to trigger inflammation around a wound or capillary regeneration to obscure the basic mechanics of repair. As a result, scientists can observe epithelial cells stitching damaged tissue back together.

SensorFM: Towards a general intelligence and interface for wearable health data

We present SensorFM, a foundation model for wearable health pre-trained on more than one trillion minutes of sensor data from five million people. By co-scaling model size and data, SensorFM learns a general-purpose representation of human physiology that transfers to 35 health prediction tasks, supports label-efficient adaptation and data infilling, and can serve as a grounding tool for a Personal Health Agent.

Sia Performs “Unstoppable” To Close the 2025 Breakthrough Prize Ceremony

Multi-platinum recording artist Sia closed the Breakthrough Prize ceremony with an inspiring rendition of “Unstoppable” as all prize laureates returned to the stage to a standing ovation.
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The eleventh Breakthrough Prize awards celebrated outstanding scientific achievements, honoring scientists driving remarkable discoveries in gene editing, human diseases, the search for the fundamental laws of the Universe and pure mathematics. Held at the Barker Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA, presentations were given by Christina Aguilera, Drew Barrymore, MrBeast, Lily Collins, Vin Diesel, Jodie Foster, Gal Gadot, Salma Hayek Pinault, Ke Huy Quan, Gayle King, Edward Norton, Gwyneth Paltrow, Seth Rogen, Lauren Sanchez, Jeremy Strong, will.i.am, and more. With live performances by Katy Perry and Sia. Continued at https://breakthroughprize.org/News/92.

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‘Complex numbers are not needed for quantum mechanics’: Physicists develop quantum model that uses only ‘real’ numbers for first time ever

For the first time, physicists have built a working version of quantum mechanics without complex numbers — numbers that have been considered essential to the theory for nearly a century.

Complex numbers combine a regular “real” number with an “imaginary” one — a multiple of the square root of-1, represented by the symbol i — into a single value, like 3 + 4i. The square root of-1 doesn’t correspond to any quantity you could count or measure directly (you can’t have negative one apple, for instance), which is why mathematicians call it imaginary.

Is AI making us stupid?

Not exactly—but how we use it matters.

A new Trends in Cognitive Sciences perspective argues that AI doesn’t inherently erode human intelligence. Instead, it highlights a well-known principle in cognitive psychology: cognitive offloading.

When we let AI perform tasks that require reasoning, writing, memory, or problem-solving, we reduce the amount of mental practice our brains receive. Like physical exercise, cognitive skills strengthen through use and weaken through disuse.

Skills: learned abilities such as writing, mathematical reasoning, diagnosis, or programming. These are most vulnerable if AI consistently replaces the learning process.

Basic cognitive abilities: foundational functions like working memory, attention, and executive control. Current evidence suggests these may be more resistant to decline, although more research is needed.

The key message isn’t that AI makes people “stupid.” Rather: AI can improve immediate performance. Overreliance may reduce long-term learning and skill retention.

AI is most beneficial when it augments human thinking instead of replacing it. This fits with decades of neuroscience showing that practice drives neuroplasticity. The brain adapts to the cognitive demands we place on it. If.

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Uploading the Human Mind To AI Is Now REAL | Artificial Immortality | Full Documentary

If you were able to create an immortal version of yourself, would you? Until this decade, that question was the stuff of science fiction, but now experts in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics suggest it will indeed be possible. This cinematic documentary explores the latest technological advancements in AI, robotics and biotech, and poses the question: what is the essence of the human mind, and can this be replicated? Or even more unsettling, could we one day meet cloned versions of ourselves – clones which are better, smarter, and immortal?

Stars: Bina48, Nick Bostrom, Lincoln Cannon.
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Shown are neural connections between the lateral habenula and ventral tegmental area (VTA) of a mouse revealed by transsynaptic tracing and immunostaining

In green are VTA neurons receiving inputs from the lateral habenula, in red are VTA neurons projecting back to the lateral habenula, and in blue are dopaminergic (TH+) VTA neurons. Approximately 25% of VTA neurons exhibit both presynaptic and postsynaptic connectivity with the lateral habenula. Lateral habenula neurons projecting to the VTA encode unpleasant signals that are necessary for learning to avoid or respond to threats.

🔗 Use the link in our bio to see the article by Marina R. Ihidoype et al. in the July 8, 2026, issue of #JNeurosci for more information. ㅤ 📸 Cover image: Marina Ihidoype.

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