AI scientists can help neuroscientists develop mental health — MIT prof Sebastian Seung

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“There are definitely good opportunities for those with strong training in machine learning, who are excited by the idea of using artificial intelligence to create tools for neuroscientists,” Sebastian Seung, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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Connectomics
Original: Helen Phillips NewScientist.com news service
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“It has to be [...]

if you build it, they may come — but to build it, you must build … so build

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“I try to keep out process – process and experimentation just don’t mix. I think if projects are overfunded they can become very conservative, bogged down in over-analysis of a potential market rather than just having a go.” Nic Fulton, chief scientist for Reuters Media
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The start-up culture in Reuters’ Labs department
by: Jemima [...]

body and mind ? a new view of intelligence … AI Lab University of Zurich

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How the Body Shapes the Way We think
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich
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“How the Body Shapes the Way We Think
“A New View of Intelligence
“Rolf Pfeifer and Josh C. Bongard
“Foreword by Rodney Brooks, MIT Press 2007
“Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard demonstrate that thought is not independent of the body but is tightly constrained, and at [...]

if you build it, they may come — swarm wars

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Organic Micro Air Vehicle
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Masters of war plan for next 100 years
by Nick Turse
Alerting source: online AsiaTimes
Original source: TomDispatch.com.
“Duane Schattle doesn’t mince words. “The cities are the problem,” he says. A retired marine infantry lieutenant colonel who worked on urban warfare issues at the Pentagon in the late [...]