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Brain-inspired AI inspires insights about the brain (and vice versa)


March 20, 2019

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In a paper presented at the 2018 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin described the results of experiments that used artificial neural networks to predict with greater accuracy than ever before, how different areas in the brain respond to specific words. Full Story

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University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

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