Ihm Curious

Ihm Curious makes videos about scientific topics at the bleeding edge of human sanity. Elliott is a doctor, but not the kind that can help you.

[Ihm Curious @IhmCurious]

New study from @visceral_mind finds a surprising link between stomach-brain synchrony and mental health. Congrats @LeahBanellis et al.!

Interview here: https://t.co/j9MX88lTW4

[UCSF Neurosurgery @NeurosurgUCSF]

Today in @NatureNeuro, researchers led by @LabNowakowski, @ChangLabUCSF & Mircea Teodorescu (@ucscgenomics) demonstrate the first use of optogenetics to modulate seizure activity at the network level in human brain tissue:
https://t.co/GquVhx1axa
@JohnPAndrews_MD @UCSFstemcell

[Ihm Curious @IhmCurious]

New CRISPR-based method for generating cross-species chimeras --> mouse grown with a rat-based brain: https://t.co/dhcHQYdNWn

[Ihm Curious @IhmCurious]

Aphantasia, or "blind imagination", could help researchers solve a big problem in consciousness research. Thanks to @hakwanlau for the discussion!
https://t.co/Z861p6dkYi

[Ihm Curious @IhmCurious]

Was Francis Crick on LSD when he realized DNA had a double-helix structure? The Internet is split, so I asked his collaborator Christof Koch: https://t.co/acgD0h1gxp

[Ihm Curious @IhmCurious]

@anilkseth on the Hard Problem vs. the Real Problem of consciousness https://t.co/Y44ULcUjeU

[Ihm Curious @IhmCurious]

Defining "consciousness" with Anil Seth, and how different theories of consciousness talk past each other: https://t.co/qGkJINp8On

[Ihm Curious @IhmCurious]

New study connects two brain organoids with an axon bundle!

They found evidence of communication between organoids, leading to more complex neural activity.

https://t.co/KiDcug3517

[Ihm Curious @IhmCurious]

https://t.co/XGHqTpUBvh

[Ihm Curious @IhmCurious]

Neuralink's "Blindsight" implant probably won't look like early Nintendo graphics: https://t.co/XGHqTpUBvh

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@cb_doge @neuralink I should mention that the Blindsight implant is already working in monkeys.

Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics, but ultimately may exceed normal human vision.

(Also, no monkey has died or been seriously injured by a Neuralink device!)

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Livestream of @Neuralink demonstrating “Telepathy” – controlling a computer and playing video games just by thinking

[Ihm Curious @IhmCurious]

Neuralink's "Telepathy" - More like telekinesis? See the other brain implants are closer to real telepathy: sending thoughts with your mind https://t.co/kulCCW3ziO

[Ihm Curious @IhmCurious]

More like telekinesis, but cool

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The first @Neuralink product is called Telepathy

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well.

Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.

[Daniël Lakens @lakens]

In psychology 96% of published tests of hypotheses find support for their hypothesis. This means that as a scientist you need a solid understanding of bias - how to detect it, and what to do about inflated effects - if you want to evaluate claims in the scientific literature.

[Robin Carhart-Harris @RCarhartHarris]

I have had an experience with one patent holding company that refused to provide a 2a blocker they held because the design I proposed threatened to support the hypothesis that 2a action & the psychedelic experience causally mediates response in depression.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

This is quite a paper on AI and scientific research!

The authors got GPT-4 to autonomously research, plan, and conduct chemical experiments, including learning how to use lab equipment by reading documentation (most were operated by code, but one task had to be done by humans)

[Ihm Curious @IhmCurious]

New recipe makes human brain organoids more human-like: expanded neuroepithelium organoids. https://t.co/vIcorsrSF4

[Ilija Radosavovic @ir413]

we have trained a humanoid transformer with large-scale reinforcement learning in simulation and deployed it to the real world zero-shot

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

The thing about LLMs that make them unintuitive is that analogizing them to having a scifi AI is less useful than thinking of them as infinite copies of some guy named Steve, a grad student who is great at coding & art and is widely-read, but makes up stuff when he is pressed.