Find me @m @NeuralEnsemble@fediscience.org A leading cause of In Silico #Neuroscience world-wide since 2010;

Joined February 2015
🧠 Two exciting funded PhD openings at the intersection of #compneuro and #NeuroAI on cortical plasticity & learning at @ABL_Lab ( @UMontreal @Mila_Quebec @CR_CHUSJ ). Interested ➠ DM on Mastadon @[email protected]
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If you can't make it on the 14th, you can also join us on Sunday, September 15th 10am-4pm. Tickets for the 15th here: eventbrite.com/e/co-creating

This summer we hosted 5 residency projects bringing together artists and researchers as part of the "Co-creating with Art and AI Residency Program" I am excited to see the exhibition of projects, join us Sep 14th - admission is free but requires a ticket: eventbrite.com/e/co-creating
 Projects explored the ethical use of AI and creative applications, incl. questions like: How can we assert agency in designing spaces and practices where creative processes, AI thinking, and human-centered design are supported and can coexist? As we increasingly use machines to tell our human stories and shape our human imagination, what are the imaginaries we want to build around artificial intelligence? This work is supported by @mila_quebec, the #IndigenousAI research program Abundant Intelligences, @GoogleDeepMind, and @CIFAR_News To find out more, check out cocreating.art/
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Wherever you are Roberto: we dearly miss you, safe journey, and may we meet again. I am so proud we could collaborate these last years, and share our passion for dendrites and plasticity. I will do my best to keep the ideas alive, and finish what we started ... in your honour.
ROBERTO ARAYA ARIZTIA Chile, April 27, 1974 Montréal, May 29, 2024
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Fond memories of a sunny afternoon with Roberto Araya, who could be like sunshine himself... gofundme.com/f/roberto-araya

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Short-term plasticity is a misnomer. Its just synapse dynamics. "Plasticity implies perturbing the resting state (molding). SD by contrast is elastic, and the resting state unchanged"
Let's rename "short-term plasticity"->"synapse dynamics", and "long-term plasticity"->"synaptic plasticity"! To me plasticity implies perturbing the resting state (moulding). SD by contrast is elastic, and the resting state unchanged. @ClopathLab @hisspikeness @compneuro_epfl
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All models are guesses, and are wrong. Feynman explains it: youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3
 We can't model "all the biological details"-"without abstractions". Adding more details, the separation of biology and physics blurs, and physics has no bottom, thus we must use abstractions.
Replying to @pgmid
Always enjoy your podcasts. This time, however, at the 1:33:35 mark, I find a glaring error that I cannot sit with. I must out it! It's the fracture point of the entire AI edifice. WRONG! There. That feels better 😊... Let me explain. Here's the dialogue: .../2
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Google released LUMIERE, and it's insane It's literally ChatGPT for: - Image-to-Video - Text-to-Video - Stylized Generation - Video Editing - Animation - Inpainting Here're 7 examples that will blow your mind:
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1/n The best understood parts of thalamus link our skin, tongue, eyes, ears to cerebral cortex. What does the rest of thalamus do? Gordon Petty now shows that secondary “tactile” and “visual” thalamus respond better to important events than their own senses! (Image SG Kene) đŸ§”
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Meet Hume’s Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), the first conversational AI with emotional intelligence.
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6/ AI is coming for Hollywood. OpenAI has started giving access to filmmakers and producers. 'air head' is one of the first short films made using Sora.
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It's been an insane week for AI. Here are 9 massive changes happening around AI this week: 1/ Deepfakes are becoming indistinguishable from reality.
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How do multiple synapses interact to modulate learning? @ejagnes & @TPVogels postulate models of “codependent” synaptic plasticity that promote rapid, multi-synaptic attainment of stable receptive fields, dendritic patterns and plausible neural dynamics nature.com/articles/s41593-0

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Artificial.Agency is building the behavior engine driving the future of interactive digital entertainment. We are co-creating the next level of gaming with our studio partners and you’re invited to be part of the journey. Join our pilot. artificial.agency/
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Excited to share our @GoogleDeepMind work creating agents that can mimic experts in goal-driven behaviour in real-time 3D environments. It's a significant stride in human-AI interaction. Delve into the details in our paper in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s41467-0

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Announcing the launch of the 2024 Co-creating with Art and AI residency program. We are looking for applicants who want to explore the ethical use of AI and/or its creative applications. Artists and collectives in all stages of their careers are invited to apply. More details about our intentions and the selection criteria can be found on the website: cocreating.art This program is a collaboration with a group of committed and talented folks including: @gauthier_gidel, @rodriguezsand02, @neuralensemble & Pierre Antoine Lafond Simard, Laurent Simon, Manuelle Freire, Arinka Jancarik, and brings together support from @Mila_Quebec @GoogleDeepMind and Abundant Intelligences. We are also looking for partners, if you or your organization might be interested, please get in touch!
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The (brand new!) AI Institute ARNI (ARtificial + Natural Intelligence) is hiring postdocs to work at the intersection of AI+neuro, at Columbia U. Please share! Info: arni-institute.org Apply: apply.interfolio.com/125533 (reviewed on rolling basis)
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I'm happy to announce the start of a new free and open online course on neuroscience for people with a machine learning or similar background, co-developed by @MarcusGhosh. YouTube Videos and Jupyter-based exercises will be released weekly. There is a Discord for discussions.
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