Senior research scientist at @LosAlamosNatLab. Former prof at @ucl
and @UTAustin. CogSci, AI, Comp Neuro, AI for scientific discovery
Also @profdata on Bluesky
"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken_lxl and BrainGPT.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s4156… 1/8
Last month Dawkins declared Claude conscious and was mocked. @GaryMarcus cleverly called it The Claude Delusion. My (and Nagel's?) take: Both are wrong for the same reason. Here's an essay on why machine consciousness will never be settled scientifically.
Are you a graduate student interested in working at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) this summer? LANL has student internships, apply here: lanl.jobs/search/jobdeta… 1/2
"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2
Exciting "new" work illustrating our broken publishing system. @seb_bobadilla presented this work online at neuromatch 2.0 at the height of the pandemic. Then, @xinyazhang_ worked years on addressing reviewer comments, which added some rigor but didn't change the message. 1/2