Andy Kitchen 🧠🤖

A surprisingly convincing P-zombie

[Brett J. Kagan @ANeuroExplorer]

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And see the paper here: https://t.co/nf0CHpoBoA

[Andy Kitchen 🧠🤖 @auastro]

@sina_lana https://t.co/h0jA5Zkfp7

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[Cortical Labs @CorticalLabs]

Life is plumbing.

[Cell Press @CellPressNews]

Watch neurons play the video game #Pong, demonstrating learning in real-time.

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[Andy Kitchen 🧠🤖 @auastro]

@ANeuroExplorer @patrickmineault There are no effect sizes even mentioned in the paper (Masumori 2015). In one of the only two sessions run, stimulation has _increased_ by the end of the session. This is paradoxically taken as evidence of "learning by stimulation avoidance"

[Andy Kitchen 🧠🤖 @auastro]

@ClaraJeffery Both Facebook instant and Google AMP dying are good. A performant and interoperable web based on open standards is much better for everyone, journalists and users.

[Andy Kitchen 🧠🤖 @auastro]

@mkrjf Your questions should be answered in the section "MEA setup and preparation" and the following sections in of our paper: https://t.co/xZlaWzJeOP
Happy to answer any other specific questions.

[Andy Kitchen 🧠🤖 @auastro]

@Timothy0Leary @EricLeonardis We heavily cite a lot of significant prior work, incl. Chao 2008 "Shaping Embodied Neural Networks for Adaptive Goal-directed Behavior". The contention is about a 2015 conference paper with a sample size of 2.

[Andy Kitchen 🧠🤖 @auastro]

@stenichele Hey Stefano, this is only meant as a light ribbing, but it appears your own 2017 paper also doesn't cite Masumori 2015, from your own recommended citation list.

[Brett J. Kagan @ANeuroExplorer]

@manuelbaltieri @anilkseth @NeuroCellPress @CorticalLabs Did you read the papers or are you jumping on the bandwagon? Computer models of neurons are not the same as biological neurons. Obscure conference proceedings with a sample size of 2... Yes, 2... Are easily missed & even if it had been seen there's more relevant work we did cite

[Andy Kitchen 🧠🤖 @auastro]

@Shamits @stenichele Thanks, I'm glad you liked the paper. We had many revisions, a year in preprint, a conference, numerous meetings with other researchers, a shared drive with hundreds of papers. I stand by the whole thing as solid science.

[Andy Kitchen 🧠🤖 @auastro]

@maartengm @sina_lana It's not unusual at all, generally one cites all significant relevant work. The claim seems to be we missed a fairly obscure conference paper presented in 2015, co-authored by Lana and some theory papers about LSA, a topic not covered in the paper.

[Brett J. Kagan @ANeuroExplorer]

Let's talk language–specifically why we used the word ‘sentience’. Over time words can end up with multiple meanings, even conflicting meanings. Colloquially this isn’t a problem. Scientifically, it is. When you’re trying to use a term to describe something you have 3 options 1/7

[Andy Kitchen 🧠🤖 @auastro]

@sina_lana We had to cut out huge amounts of discussion due to word limits, we fought to keep in as much as we could. It's also not a lit review.

[Andy Kitchen 🧠🤖 @auastro]

@sina_lana A lot of late nights a person sacrifices went into this project and getting this paper published. One scientist to another: academic prestige and citation politics are awful. I wish we could have just randomly met at a conference and excitedly told each other about our work

[Andy Kitchen 🧠🤖 @auastro]

@sina_lana Coauthor here, I hope you found the actual substance of our paper elucidating and exciting. It's a shame about the citation thing. I genuinely look forward to engaging with your work in the future.

[Chief AI Denier @VonTonks]

had a good chat with @auastro about how he's basically putting brain cells into the Pong Matrix

https://t.co/xmPCQFJrl3