{"id":173084,"date":"2023-09-29T11:18:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/ai-models-are-powerful-but-are-they-biologically-plausible"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:19:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T16:19:02","slug":"ai-models-are-powerful-but-are-they-biologically-plausible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/ai-models-are-powerful-but-are-they-biologically-plausible","title":{"rendered":"AI models are powerful, but are they biologically plausible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-models-are-powerful-but-are-they-biologically-plausible2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About six years ago, scientists discovered a new type of more powerful neural network model known as a transformer. These models can achieve unprecedented performance, such as by generating text from prompts with near-human-like accuracy. A transformer underlies AI systems such as ChatGPT and Bard, for example. While incredibly effective, transformers are also mysterious: Unlike with other <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a>-inspired neural network models, it hasn\u2019t been clear how to build them using biological components.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers from MIT, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, and Harvard Medical School have produced a hypothesis that may explain how a transformer could be built using biological elements in the brain. They suggest that a biological network composed of neurons and other <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/brain+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain cells<\/a> called astrocytes could perform the same core computation as a transformer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About six years ago, scientists discovered a new type of more powerful neural network model known as a transformer. These models can achieve unprecedented performance, such as by generating text from prompts with near-human-like accuracy. A transformer underlies AI systems such as ChatGPT and Bard, for example. While incredibly effective, transformers are also mysterious: Unlike [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173084","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\/173084","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173087,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173084\/revisions\/173087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}