AI, monkey brains, and the virtue of small thinking illuminate how the brain processes sight

With help from monkeys, scientists build a leaner AI brain

Scientists have created an AI version of a monkey brain that recognizes images without requiring the massive computing power of existing AI systems.

AI, monkey brains, and the virtue of small thinking illuminate how the brain processes sight

What does it take to make AI that can pass as human? Try massive clusters of supercomputers. To build human-like intelligence, computer scientists think big. However, for neuroscientists who want to understand how real brains work, today's AI only goes so far, as it replaces one deeply complicated system (the brain) with another (AI). How, then, do we figure out the inner workings of the biological brain? To answer this question, Cold Spring Har…