brAIn: AI + Neuroscience
connecting natural and artificial intelligence
The brAIn Seminar at Carnegie Mellon University is a virtual weekly research seminar series spanning topics related to computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence—an emerging field now commonly known as NeuroAI. Invited speakers include roboticists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, and cognitive scientists joined by an interest in both natural and artificial intelligence. We welcome students and faculty of any institution and affiliation to attend.
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It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys. It is used. And one of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary and turn the unusual into the usual.
It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys. It is used. And one of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary and turn the unusual into the usual.
— Sir Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
— Sir Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
— Sir Terry Pratchett, Hogfather