Quick, what have we learned from the BRAIN Initiative? One sentence or less please.

Such a pleasure to talk to Ashley J. Llorens about grounding intelligence in brains & building & evaluating brain inspired AI.
Ashley inspired me to articulate big picture ideas about cognitive components that can be orchestrated to solve different problems, like cognitive LEGO.🙏🏼

Hi all, we would like to introduce you to Spyglass (github.com/LorenFrankLab/…) - our software framework for creating reproducible data analysis and data sharing for neuroscience research (spearheaded by Kyu Hyun Lee and myself, but really a group effort by the Frank lab).

If I got a dollar every time I typed 'brian' instead of brain...

“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
- This quote is attributed to both Aldous Huxley & to Neil Postman (in book: Amusing ourselves to death). Does anyone have the exact reference?

📢 📢 Delighted to share our paper with the amazing team Safoora Yousefi, Leo Betthauser, Hosein Hasanbeig Raphaël Millière on neuro-inspired analysis of LLMs.

Decoding In-Context Learning: Neuroscience-inspired Analysis of Representations in LLMs
arxiv.org/abs/2310.00313
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We're hosting a workshop on episodic memory in humans, animals and machines at LSE in May, with such excellent speakers as Nicola Clayton Andrea Blomkvist Lucy Cheke Zafeirios Fountas, Felipe De Brigard, Johannes Mahr, Gema Martin-Ordas, Ida Momennejad & Arieh Schwartz. Please join!

My latest for nature: AI's environmental costs are soaring. The new energy-hungry models for video, text, and image could create an energy crisis - and impact drinking water reserves. We urgently need action from industry, researchers, and legislators. nature.com/articles/d4158…

How do LLM representations change as they learn to perform tasks in context? We took inspiration from the neuroscientist's toolkit to shed some light on this! This was a fun project with Safoora Yousefi, Leo Betthauser & Hosein Hasanbeig led by Ida Momennejad from Microsoft Research:

Might be one of the most interesting PhD ofers on the market
Still active!