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BIG NEWS EVERYONE! Neuromatch seeks a new CEO/Executive Director! We are so grateful to Nick Halper for his enthusiasm, talent, & guidance. He's grown our org into a mature, lively, impactful force far beyond expectation! Big shoes to fill! Help us spread the word!

Exciting open suite of LLMs 🤩 We need more such suite of models to accelerate and democratize research in better understanding LLMs. 🚀 Congratulations to Tejas Vaidhya Irina Rish and team! ⭐️

this is every lab (i don't make the rules)

Nouveau conférencier pour “Boussole des politiques en IA”, le 27-28 août! Guillaume Lajoie Guillaume Lajoie, professeur adjoint de l'Université de Montréal, discutera entre autres des façons de renforcer et d’approfondir les concepts de l'IA. mila.quebec/fr/boussole-de…

The most ambitious car-free scheme on the continent, Montréal pedestrianized 11 commercial arteries—totaling 9.4 km—in seven boroughs this summer. A pandemic-era initiative pushed by business leaders, they have quickly become cherished destinations for locals and tourists alike.

A new preprint that revives the theory of continous attractors that may be surprising to you! Despite their mathematical fragility, we show that they are functionally *robust*. No wonder we see approximate continuous attractors in neuroscience often. arxiv.org/abs/2408.00109

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We are proud to participate with Espace pour la vie VT Ecostudies and Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa in the launch of the #eButterfly application. This free application uses AI to identify butterflies all over the world, and lets you share your observations directly from your phone. Read the press

👋Check out the latest findings from our lab at #CCN2024 CogCompNeuro Thread & links to preprints below 👇 (1/n)

Is exponential gradient descent a solution to explain learning in biological neurons? Presentation by Blake Richards at Neuro-AI at UW Computational Neuroscience Center

New research from our lab, led by Karin Saltoun: #brain #asymmetry changes *within-subjects* over years, which explains individual differences in i) everyday behavior and ii) vulnerability to disease; demonstrated at population scale preprint: researchsquare.com/article/rs-479…

Our review on Language in Brains, Minds, and Machines (with Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected] Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦) is now officially published and the volume is OPEN access! annualreviews.org/content/journa…

She’s gonna publish a dozen papers on the internet’s reaction to her terrible breakdancing. This woman is playing 5D chess on an academic scale.

The degree of rigor by Colin (et al) to formalize what’s meant by “biologically plausible” in terms of locality (TL;DR which variables have access to which other variables) is quite impressive, and worth thinking through for anyone interested in neuro/AI.

What are foundation models in neuroscience? I'll be giving a talk next week to the NIH neuroscience ethics working group. I started writing a short blog post which snowballed into this 5,000 word essay neuroai.science/p/foundation-m…

✨🎨🏰Super excited to share our new paper Ensemble everything everywhere: Multi-scale aggregation for adversarial robustness Inspired by biology we 1) get adversarial robustness + interpretability for free, 2) turn classifiers into generators & 3) design attacks on vLLMs 1/12

A fun a16z Bio + Health podcast w/Vijay Pande & Bowen Liu on AI and drug discovery covering, among other things, foundation models in biology, LLMs for small molecules, clinical trial opt, evolution and AI, and many opportunities for AI powered efficiency in drug design