Eilif B. Muller @[email protected]

Find me @m @[email protected]
A leading cause of In Silico #Neuroscience world-wide since 2010;

[Eilif B. Muller @[email protected] @NeuralEnsemble]

🧠 Two exciting funded PhD openings at the intersection of #compneuro and #NeuroAI on cortical plasticity & learning at @ABL_Lab ( @UMontreal @Mila_Quebec @CR_CHUSJ ).

Interested ➠ DM on Mastadon @[email protected]

[Eilif B. Muller @[email protected] @NeuralEnsemble]

If you can't make it on the 14th, you can also join us on Sunday, September 15th 10am-4pm. Tickets for the 15th here:
https://t.co/6soewGsNrK

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

This summer we hosted 5 residency projects bringing together artists and researchers as part of the "Co-creating with Art and AI Residency Program"

I am excited to see the exhibition of projects, join us Sep 14th - admission is free but requires a ticket: https://t.co/eTyeCUU6Ml

Projects explored the ethical use of AI and creative applications, incl. questions like:

How can we assert agency in designing spaces and practices where creative processes, AI thinking, and human-centered design are supported and can coexist?

As we increasingly use machines to tell our human stories and shape our human imagination, what are the imaginaries we want to build around artificial intelligence?

This work is supported by @mila_quebec, the #IndigenousAI research program Abundant Intelligences, @GoogleDeepMind, and @CIFAR_News

To find out more, check out https://t.co/v2XF5BGiDC

[Eilif B. Muller @[email protected] @NeuralEnsemble]

@korymath If you can't make it on the 14th, you can also see it on the 15th 10am-4pm. Tickets for the 15th here:
https://t.co/6soewGsNrK

[Eilif B. Muller @[email protected] @NeuralEnsemble]

These are difficult times for Roberto's family. Please consider donating here: https://t.co/6ImHafEwzC

[Eilif B. Muller @[email protected] @NeuralEnsemble]

Wherever you are Roberto: we dearly miss you, safe journey, and may we meet again. I am so proud we could collaborate these last years, and share our passion for dendrites and plasticity. I will do my best to keep the ideas alive, and finish what we started ... in your honour.

[Araya NeuroLab🇨🇦 @ArayAlab]

ROBERTO ARAYA ARIZTIA
Chile, April 27, 1974
Montréal, May 29, 2024

[Randy Bruno @TheBrunoCortex]

Fond memories of a sunny afternoon with Roberto Araya, who could be like sunshine himself... https://t.co/kIXDMq3dZ3

[Eilif B. Muller @[email protected] @NeuralEnsemble]

@dlevenstein @StefanoFusi2 I don't know. What do you think @dlevenstein ? Would be happy to discuss more at Mila in person

[Eilif B. Muller @[email protected] @NeuralEnsemble]

Short-term plasticity is a misnomer. Its just synapse dynamics. "Plasticity implies perturbing the resting state (molding). SD by contrast is elastic, and the resting state unchanged"

[Eilif B. Muller @[email protected] @NeuralEnsemble]

Let's rename "short-term plasticity"->"synapse dynamics", and "long-term plasticity"->"synaptic plasticity"! To me plasticity implies perturbing the resting state (moulding). SD by contrast is elastic, and the resting state unchanged. @ClopathLab @hisspikeness @compneuro_epfl

[Eilif B. Muller @[email protected] @NeuralEnsemble]

@nspruston @kurthaas4 @JCBeique @ra2174 @SChenlab

[Eilif B. Muller @[email protected] @NeuralEnsemble]

@pj_sjostrom

[Eilif B. Muller @[email protected] @NeuralEnsemble]

All models are guesses, and are wrong. Feynman explains it: https://t.co/kTEHOmnGKc
We can't model "all the biological details"-"without abstractions". Adding more details, the separation of biology and physics blurs, and physics has no bottom, thus we must use abstractions.

[Colin Hales @Dr_Cuspy]

@pgmid Always enjoy your podcasts. This time, however, at the 1:33:35 mark, I find a glaring error that I cannot sit with. I must out it! It's the fracture point of the entire AI edifice. WRONG! There. That feels better 😊... Let me explain.

Here's the dialogue: .../2

[Poonam Soni @CodeByPoonam]

Google released LUMIERE, and it's insane

It's literally ChatGPT for:
- Image-to-Video
- Text-to-Video
- Stylized Generation
- Video Editing
- Animation
- Inpainting

Here're 7 examples that will blow your mind:

[Randy Bruno @TheBrunoCortex]

1/n The best understood parts of thalamus link our skin, tongue, eyes, ears to cerebral cortex. What does the rest of thalamus do? Gordon Petty now shows that secondary “tactile” and “visual” thalamus respond better to important events than their own senses! (Image SG Kene) 🧵

[Hume AI @hume_ai]

Meet Hume’s Empathic Voice Interface (EVI), the first conversational AI with emotional intelligence.

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

6/ AI is coming for Hollywood.

OpenAI has started giving access to filmmakers and producers.

'air head' is one of the first short films made using Sora.

[Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee]

It's been an insane week for AI.

Here are 9 massive changes happening around AI this week:

1/ Deepfakes are becoming indistinguishable from reality.

[Nature Neuroscience @NatureNeuro]

How do multiple synapses interact to modulate learning? @ejagnes & @TPVogels postulate models of “codependent” synaptic plasticity that promote rapid, multi-synaptic attainment of stable receptive fields, dendritic patterns and plausible neural dynamics

https://t.co/635Kx9eGQt

[Eilif B. Muller @[email protected] @NeuralEnsemble]

@Samuel_Eckmann STDP is an experimental protocol to evoke LTP, and certainly not the only way relevant for learning invivo

[Artificial.Agency @ArtificialAgncy]

https://t.co/RsZSrqV9Lt is building the behavior engine driving the future of interactive digital entertainment.

We are co-creating the next level of gaming with our studio partners and you’re invited to be part of the journey.

Join our pilot.
https://t.co/7PHRy59hM2

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

Excited to share our @GoogleDeepMind work creating agents that can mimic experts in goal-driven behaviour in real-time 3D environments.

It's a significant stride in human-AI interaction.

Delve into the details in our paper in Nature Communications
https://t.co/HmDjUUaAtI

[Kory Mathewson @korymath]

Announcing the launch of the 2024 Co-creating with Art and AI residency program.

We are looking for applicants who want to explore the ethical use of AI and/or its creative applications. Artists and collectives in all stages of their careers are invited to apply.

More details about our intentions and the selection criteria can be found on the website: https://t.co/79Aw9kbKjr

This program is a collaboration with a group of committed and talented folks including: @gauthier_gidel, @rodriguezsand02, @neuralensemble & Pierre Antoine Lafond Simard, Laurent Simon, Manuelle Freire, Arinka Jancarik, and brings together support from @Mila_Quebec @GoogleDeepMind and Abundant Intelligences.

We are also looking for partners, if you or your organization might be interested, please get in touch!