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Migrating to Substack

After 15 happy years on WordPress.com, I’ve moved to Substack at neuroai.science. I’ve already published more than a dozen long-form articles on neuroscience and AI over there in newsletter format. You can subscribe or read the archives completely free. Substack makes it easy to create sticky experiences for audiences and reach them where they are–in…

How can a neural network be like the brain?

NeuroAI is the budding research field at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. One of the core concepts used in the field is that artificial neural networks can act as good models of the brain. For example, it’s often claimed that convolutional neural networks can account for the response of the ventral visual stream…

How much energy does ChatGPT use?

I received this intriguing question from Daria Marchenko, who is a contributor on Moteur de Recherche, on Canadian public radio. I went into a deep rabbit hole trying to find a good answer–especially since she also interviewed the wonderful Sasha Luccioni, an expert on ML and climate change. Most of the estimates I’ve found online…