New paper! BOLD “activity” is caused by local hemodynamic/metabolic changes—but what does “activity” mean in functional terms?
Our review examines oft-overlooked increases in glucose metabolism (coinciding with BOLD increases) and proposes an answer. 1/6
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Check out our new paper. Traditionally, BOLD signal is interpreted as measuring brain “activity,” but what is “activity”? We suggest that increases in BOLD signal specifically track unexpected sensory signals (i.e., prediction error) as opposed to generic 'local processing.' 1/2

📢Dr. Adeel Razi is our next guest at MLDawn. We will discuss Active Inference, Dynamic Causal Modeling and more! The interview will be available soon at shorturl.at/uAH48 ! Stay tuned👊👊👊
#neuroscience s #neuroscience #machinelearning #deeplearning #ai #cognitivescience

“it’s written in an experimental style” is the experiment writing badly

[NEWS] VERSES Completes EU Funded Autonomous Drone Governance Program

The three-year research initiative sets the stage for commercialization of urban air mobility in smart cities across the Europe Union.

🔗 hubs.li/Q020nQXs0

$VERS #Drone #AI #FF2020

Me at the Marxist meeting:... wait fr? Actually? You actually believed that dialectics stuff? I thought it was just a bit to wind up the libs!? Haha that's crazy man. Wait, I'm not expected to believe it am I?

I am still mulling over the fact that
1. If my platform had been smaller and
2. If I didn't have people advocating for me
I'd still be banned from this site without any explanation on their part of what terms I violated, and without possibility of appeal.
This is unacceptable.

Time for a tweeprint of our latest paper!

We found that neuron densities follow a lognormal distribution within and across cerebral cortical areas in several species! 🧠🐒🐁🧍

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I'm back (thanks for letting me know!!) But i'm still nonplussed and my already declining confidence in this platform got another hit. It makes me wonder how can we as users exert *any* kind of control on what the platform does? Voting w feet is fine as it goes, but otherwise??

very upsetting that someone as wholesome as Helen would be suspended from Xitter

Very much looking forward to #ESPP2023 in beautiful Prague! I'll be presenting some of our cool HRI results and WIP🤖

If you're attending and want to nerd out, drop me a line!✨

Well deserved! Active inference has really become popular in the mainstream this year—it’s highly encouraging!

Our perspective: How #activeinference could help revolutionise robotics 🤖 & deliver adaptive, safe and explainable AI 🧠 has been nominated for a Best Paper Award 🥇🎉 Check it out doi.org/10.3390/e24030… Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging

Our new preprint: 'Bridging Cognitive Maps: a Hierarchical Active Inference Model of Spatial Alternation Tasks and the Hippocampal-Prefrontal Circuit' thesmartrobot

With Bart Dhoedt, Tim Verbelen and Giovanni Pezzulo

arxiv.org/abs/2308.11463

Stanford Prison Experiment Humor:

Yesterday I gave a talk at the 3rd annual Active Inference Symposium. If, by some cosmic coincidence, you too are interested in applications of 18th century epistemology to symbolic machine learning in robots... youtube.com/watch?v=PVeyvH…
#ActiveInference #prolog #kant #robotics

OK, I'm calling it. Le Bleu Sky science twitter is functionally on par with X science twitter. I made the same post an hour ago on both platforms, and got very similar engagement at both places (even though I have 50x the followers on X!).

postdoc and 2 Ph.D. positions in Active Inference in Human-Computer Interaction, at the University of Glasgow, Scotland

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Presenting to the 3rd applied Active Inference Symposium with Active Inference Institute on shared protentions, paper on collective active inference and category theory

Okay, given the extremely positive reaction, I'll be doing this. Details to follow. Thanks for all the love!