{"id":101149,"date":"2020-01-21T12:06:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/how-researchers-used-ai-to-better-understand-biological-vision"},"modified":"2020-01-21T12:06:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T20:06:45","slug":"how-researchers-used-ai-to-better-understand-biological-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/how-researchers-used-ai-to-better-understand-biological-vision","title":{"rendered":"How Researchers Used AI to Better Understand Biological Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lUazMZ9jSV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A few years back, DeepMind\u2019s Demis Hassabis <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/08\/02\/why-neuroscience-is-the-key-to-innovation-in-ai\/\">famously prophesized<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\">AI<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/tag\/neuroscience\/\">neuroscience<\/a> will positively feed into each other in a \u201cvirtuous circle.\u201d If realized, this would fundamentally expand our insight into intelligence, both machine and human.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve already seen some proofs of concept, at least in the brain-to-AI direction. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/06\/19\/how-to-build-a-mind-this-learning-theory-may-hold-the-answer\/\">memory replay<\/a>, a biological mechanism that fortifies our memories during sleep, also boosted AI learning when abstractly appropriated into deep learning models. <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/06\/19\/how-deepminds-latest-ai-hints-at-machines-that-think-more-like-us\/\">Reinforcement learning<\/a>, loosely based on our motivation circuits, is now behind some of AI\u2019s most powerful tools.<\/p>\n<p>Hassabis is about to be proven right again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, DeepMind\u2019s Demis Hassabis famously prophesized that AI and neuroscience will positively feed into each other in a \u201cvirtuous circle.\u201d If realized, this would fundamentally expand our insight into intelligence, both machine and human. We\u2019ve already seen some proofs of concept, at least in the brain-to-AI direction. For example, memory replay, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}