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Henning Sprekeler (Science of Intelligence), “Harnessing Machine Learning To Model Biological Systems”

"Harnessing machine learning to model biological systems" Abstract: Classically, models of biological systems follow two different approaches. In bottom-up approaches, biological data are used to constrain a phenomenological model of the system in question, and the model is the studied to identify potential functions or potential consequences of the observations that flow into the model.

Mengmi Zhang (Harvard Medical School), “A Peek Into How Brain Computations Inspire New Paths in AI and How AI Elucidate Brain Computations”

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Abstract: The fields of neuroscience and AI have a long and intertwined history. From the study of simple and complex cells in visual areas of the brain to the recent success of convolution neural networks in many real-world applications, experimental and theoretical neuroscience has contributed significantly to designing smarter machines. In turn, AI models help us better understand