Mandana Samiei
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Mandana Samiei
@mandanas.bsky.social
PhD candidate at McGill and Mila (Quebec AI Institute) w/ Blake Richards and Doina Precup.
Doing research on AI and Neuroscience 🤖🧠
Based in Montreal. 🇨🇦
Reposted by Mandana Samiei
4/ I think the proper definition is that #NeuroAI is the realization of the original promise of cybernetics and connectionism!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberne...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect...

It is a general science of intelligence focussed on parallel distributed systems, control, and learning.
November 21, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Can you please add me as well?
November 18, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Reposted by Mandana Samiei
I wish that I was able to convince the students in my class that the ultimate goal of science isn't accumulation of facts but the compression of facts into theories. Mel summarizes it well here:
www.nature.com/articles/nn1...
Unfortunately, I think this is a minority viewpoint within neuroscience.
www.nature.com
November 12, 2024 at 12:07 PM