{"id":93361,"date":"2019-07-09T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/neuroscience-and-artificial-intelligence-can-help-improve-each-other"},"modified":"2019-07-09T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:03:50","slug":"neuroscience-and-artificial-intelligence-can-help-improve-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/neuroscience-and-artificial-intelligence-can-help-improve-each-other","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscience and artificial intelligence can help improve each other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscience-and-artificial-intelligence-can-help-improve-each-other2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite their names, artificial intelligence technologies and their component systems, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2017\/explained-neural-networks-deep-learning-0414\">artificial neural networks<\/a>, don\u2019t have much to do with real brain science. I\u2019m a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silva.ucsd.edu\">professor of bioengineering and neurosciences<\/a> interested in understanding how the brain works as a system \u2013 and how we can use that knowledge to design and engineer new machine learning models.<\/p>\n<p>In recent decades, brain researchers have learned a huge amount about the physical connections in the brain and about how the nervous system routes information and processes it. But there is still a vast amount yet to be discovered.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, computer algorithms, software and hardware advances have brought machine learning to previously unimagined levels of achievement. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=YkJ6RmUAAAAJ&hl=en\">I<\/a> and other researchers in the field, including a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/artificial-intelligence-pioneer-says-we-need-to-start-over-1513305524-f619efbd-9db0-4947-a9b2-7a4c310a28fe.html\">its leaders<\/a>, have a growing sense that finding out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.neuron.2017.06.011\">how the brain processes information<\/a> could <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2017-08-neuroscience-advance-machine.html\">help programmers translate<\/a> the concepts of thinking from the wet and squishy world of biology into all-new forms of machine learning in the digital world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite their names, artificial intelligence technologies and their component systems, such as artificial neural networks, don\u2019t have much to do with real brain science. I\u2019m a professor of bioengineering and neurosciences interested in understanding how the brain works as a system \u2013 and how we can use that knowledge to design and engineer new machine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,41,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-information-science","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93361","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}