Patrick Mineault

@patrickmineault

NeuroAI researcher @ Amaranth Foundation, safety, open science. Previously engineer @ Google, Meta, Mila.

New York City

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Patrick Mineault
@patrickmineault
Dec 2, 2024
Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N
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Patrick Mineault
@patrickmineault
Sep 2
I was floored when I heard that there are chemogenetics trials in humans. We're engineering neurons to have synthetic receptors that can be activated using normally inert drugs! How big of a deal is this? Can we cure epilepsy? PD? I did a deep dive into human chemogenetics
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Patrick Mineault
@patrickmineault
Aug 26
❤️❤️❤️Big milestone today: 3,000 of you have agreed to occasionally bless their inboxes with extremely niche deep dives into NeuroAI. Thank you so much for the support ❤️❤️❤️
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Patrick Mineault
@patrickmineault
Aug 22
How does the brain know how to wire itself up? Tony Zador and Stan Kerstjens use an algorithmic frame (o notation in space and time), and it’s quite compelling
stankerstjens.github.io
Could a computer scientist build a brain?
How does a brain wire itself, starting from a single cell, using only the information encoded in a genome? We pose this as an engineering problem.
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Patrick Mineault
@patrickmineault
Aug 21
How has neuroscience changed in the past 10 years? I reread The Future of the Brain, a 2014 compilation of essays from neuroscientists, to see if we accomplished what we said we would. Atlases! Connectomes! Whole brain simulations! Not everything panned out, but we did pretty
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