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Didn't quite catch, is this just the first mapping, or are they able to 'execute it'. Like the worm project a few years ago. Where they mapped worm "C. elegans"
by FrustratedMonky 3y ago
Didn't quite catch, is this just the first mapping, or are they able to 'execute it'.
Like the worm project a few years ago. Where they mapped worm "C. elegans" brain, and was able to put in a simulated environment and watch reactions, and eventually into a robot body.
This seems like next step up in complexity, so wondering how far they are along having the 'brain map' execute.
- mhb 3y agoWhole Brain Emulation: No Progress on C. elegans After 10 Years https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQxwKuzZS69CXX5/whole-brain-emulation-no-progress-on-c-elegans-after-10 https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQxwKuzZS69CXX5/whole-brai...
- Dig1t 3y agoWow very interesting. They say the holdup is that they lack a way to read the weights and thresholds of the neurons. So they have the network structure, but not the weights. It says that there isn’t enough interest in funding research on a method to read the weights either. That’s really surprising. This method could unlock some crazy cool science.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoIt seems like with the current fire around AI, that making a worm or fly brain function in a simulated environment would be a hot bed of research. I wonder if the research is hot, but private, like at OpenAI, or Neuralink.
- comfypotato 3y agoThey started publishing again this year! They’ve isolated the neural net and published it as a “liquid neural network”. Check it out, it outperforms CNNs for niche tasks with a fraction of the resources.
- nickisnoble 3y agoSources?
- comfypotato 3y agohttps://hackernoon.com/an-introduction-to-liquid-neural-networks-nt5c33t7 https://hackernoon.com/an-introduction-to-liquid-neural-netw...
- gwern 3y agoI'd highlight my comment there on recent progress since that was posted back in 2021: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQxwKuzZS69CXX5/whole-brain-emulation-no-progress-on-c-elegans-after-10?commentId=oWwprWjdGKDyWYrZs https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mHqQxwKuzZS69CXX5/whole-brai...