{"id":118111,"date":"2021-01-06T14:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T22:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/scientists-want-to-give-neural-networks-virtual-drugs"},"modified":"2021-01-06T14:24:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T22:24:12","slug":"scientists-want-to-give-neural-networks-virtual-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/scientists-want-to-give-neural-networks-virtual-drugs","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Want to Give Neural Networks Virtual Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-want-to-give-neural-networks-virtual-drugs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Trip Planning<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With their AI approximation for psychedelic trips in place, the team says they can start to probe for similarities with how the <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/research-dmt-effects-brainwaves-consciousness\">human brain processes drugs<\/a>, citing the structural similarity between neural nets and the human visual cortices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe process of generating natural images with deep neural networks can be perturbed in visually similar ways and may offer mechanistic insights into its biological counterpart \u2014 in addition to offering a tool to illustrate verbal reports of psychedelic experiences,\u201d Schartner told <em>PsyPost<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trip Planning With their AI approximation for psychedelic trips in place, the team says they can start to probe for similarities with how the human brain processes drugs, citing the structural similarity between neural nets and the human visual cortices. \u201cThe process of generating natural images with deep neural networks can be perturbed in visually [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118111","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}