{"id":131163,"date":"2021-11-24T10:22:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/how-ai-is-deepening-our-understanding-of-the-brain"},"modified":"2021-11-24T10:22:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:22:48","slug":"how-ai-is-deepening-our-understanding-of-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/how-ai-is-deepening-our-understanding-of-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"How AI Is Deepening Our Understanding of the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-ai-is-deepening-our-understanding-of-the-brain3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial neural networks are famously inspired by their biological counterparts. Yet compared to human brains, these algorithms are highly simplified, even \u201ccartoonish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Can they teach us anything about how the brain works?<\/p>\n<p>For a panel at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfn.org\/meetings\/neuroscience-2021\">Society for Neuroscience annual meeting<\/a> this month, the answer is yes. Deep learning wasn\u2019t meant to model the brain. In fact, it contains elements that are biologically improbable, if not utterly impossible. But that\u2019s not the point, argues the panel. By studying how deep learning algorithms perform, we can distill high-level theories for the brain\u2019s processes\u2014inspirations to be further tested in the lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial neural networks are famously inspired by their biological counterparts. Yet compared to human brains, these algorithms are highly simplified, even \u201ccartoonish.\u201d Can they teach us anything about how the brain works? For a panel at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting this month, the answer is yes. Deep learning wasn\u2019t meant to model the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131163","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=131163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}