CompNeuro Lab

ELiSe: Efficient Learning of Sequences in Structured Recurrent Networks Behavior can be described as a temporal sequence of actions driven by neural activity. To learn complex sequential patterns in neural networks, memories of past activities need to persist on significa...

Discover how a neural network learns to play Für Elise the brain's way in Ben von Hünerbein's NICE presentation: flagship.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/jss/HBPm?m=d... and the related preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2402.16763
#Neuroscience #AI #ML
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Teams @neurotma.bsky.social and @compneurosenn.bsky.social were well represented at the lastest Neuro Inspired Computational Elements (NICE) Conference!
#neuromorphic #AI #ML
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Looking for an exciting fellowship in neuroAI, with competitive salary (~£100k)?

Our group is hiring for a project on AI for Systems-Behavioral Neuroscience, more info here: encode.pillar.vc/projects/beh...

General info: encode.pillar.vc 🧪

#compneuro #neuroai #neuroscience #sciencejobs

The EBRAINS Tutorials and Users Day and Developers Day took place on March 12 and 13, at the European Institute for Neuromorphic Computing, in Heidelberg, Germany.

The events brought together more than 100 attendees from over 15 countries.

Read more: www.ebrains.eu/news-and-eve...

AI with consciousness - but pain-free? Researchers at the University of Bern have developed a new model for the emergence of consciousness. The model suggests that one day artificial agents, i.e. systems which imitate human thought, could ...

-> related press release from @unibern.bsky.social
"AI with consciousness - but pain-free?"
mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releas...
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The conductor model of consciousness, our neuromorphic twins, and the human-AI deal - AI and Ethics Critics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) posit that artificial agents cannot achieve consciousness even in principle, because they lack certain necessary pre-conditions present in biological agents. He...

-> related publication: "The conductor model of consciousness, our neuromorphic twins, and the human-AI deal."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Berner Forscher wollen einen Pakt mit der KI schliessen KI entwickelt sich rasant: Was, wenn sie wie ein Mensch zu denken beginnt? Zwei Berner Forscher möchten für diesen Fall einen Vertrag zwischen Menschheit und Maschinen.

New interview of Federico Benitez and Walter Senn in the Berner Zeitung (in German) about their model for consciousness emergence in AI systems, governed by a "Human-AI Deal"!

www.derbund.ch/universitaet...
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More brainlike computers could change AI for the better New brain-inspired hardware, architectures and algorithms could lead to more efficient, more capable forms of AI.

New contribution in ScienceNews with an interview of Mihai A. Petrovici!
"More brainlike computers could change AI for the better"
By: Kathryn Hulick
www.sciencenews.org/article/brai...
#neuromorphic #AI #ML
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@unibern.bsky.social

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Exciting news: the MINT project "NSF-SNSF: Scalable accelerated learning in continuous neuronal systems" was awarded $1,178,194 🥳🎉
Very happy to share this funding with our US collaborator Prof. Rajit Manohar from Yale University!!
@snsf-ch.bsky.social
@unibern.bsky.social
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Our paper introducing the Lu.i is out in "Trends in Neuroscience and Education" 🥳
doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...
thanks to our continuing and fruitful collaboration with the Electronic Vision(s) team in Heidelberg.
Check out the manuscript and the public repository
github.com/giant-axon/l...

Online Talks - Cologne Theoretical Neuroscience Forum - available as Video Resource here:

vimeo.com/user/1227688...

Detailed list below.

@neurowissg.bsky.social @ibehave.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social @compneurosenn.bsky.social @dzne.science @gatsbyucl.bsky.social @neuralensemble.bsky.social

We have joined bluesky !

@unicologne.bsky.social @ibehave.bsky.social @ccnberlin.bsky.social @cecad.bsky.social @yifatprut.bsky.social @henningfenselau.bsky.social @ggatto.bsky.social @massecklab.bsky.social @ikadow.bsky.social @mosheparnas.bsky.social @chrisjernigan.bsky.social

Watching the last video of Veritasium (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q10_...) about the least-action principle reminded me of revisiting this beautiful paper:
doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

#neuroskence #comneuro #complex_systems #physics

An integrative, multiscale view on neural theories of consciousness

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Lu.i neuromorphic hardware shaped as a neuron next to a 2 euro coin for size reference and a diagram illustrating excitatory and inhibitory inputs

For more info on our Lu.i see our repo github.com/giant-axon/l... and the preprint our researchers from @unibern.bsky.social and @Heidelberg University
published arxiv.org/abs/2404.16664

Neuromorphic computing: More energy efficiency in autonomous driving of the future | Mercedes-Benz Group Future vehicles will include more and more functionalities, with those for autonomous driving being just one example. As this will lead to significantly higher energy requirements, efficiency is a cru...

Amused to see our open source palm-sized analogue neuromorphic hardware Lu.i being used to explain new applications of #neuromorphic engineering!
group.mercedes-benz.com/innovations/...

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

A screenshot of a paper on bioarxiv illustrating the lack of blue sky share button!

Would you like to see @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social add a share to blue sky button?! I know I would! Share this post to let @richardsever.bsky.social @erictopol.bsky.social and others at bioarxiv know!