A Brain Researcher's Bid to Make Digital Twins of Humans
Earlier this month, Nature published some of the results from a multi-year effort to better understand the visual cortex of mice.
The work took place under the MICrONS effort backed by IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity), one of the U.S. government’s more exotic research arms. And it represented a ground-breaking attempt to blend cutting-edge techniques in how we analyze brains with artificial intelligence technology.
As The New York Times wrote,
The researchers zeroed in on a portion of the mouse brain that receives signals from the eyes and reconstructs what the animal…
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