The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment(economist.com)

76 points by andsoitis 2 months ago | 116 comments

AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation(economist.com)

50 points by mooreds 3 years ago | 28 comments

Artificial brains help understand real brains(economist.com)

79 points by Jeff_Brown 3 years ago | 40 comments

America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain(economist.com)

31 points by mraniki 1 year ago | 29 comments

Stimulating parts of the brain can help the paralysed to walk again(economist.com)

12 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 2 comments

Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion(economist.com)

124 points by andsoitis 4 months ago | 348 comments

Mini brain organoids ‘reading’ Braille key step towards biohybrid computing(frontiersin.org)

36 points by CharlesW 4 days ago | 48 comments

Frontiers news article on a Bristol study where brain organoids on electrode arrays relayed tactile Braille signals decodable by an SVM, with three organoids reaching 83% accuracy.

40 percent of fMRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity(tum.de)

481 points by geox 10 months ago | 192 comments

TUM press release on a Nature Neuroscience study finding that about 40 percent of fMRI signals do not reflect actual neuronal activity, challenging how fMRI data are interpreted.

Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them(studyfinds.com)

323 points by mdp2021 1 month ago | 129 comments

StudyFinds article on Binghamton University research suggesting aging brains blend similar memories together rather than simply forgetting them.

Eye scans detect signs of Parkinson’s disease up to seven years before diagnosis(moorfields.nhs.uk)

330 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 118 comments

Moorfields Eye Hospital news release reporting that retinal eye scans can reveal signs of Parkinson's disease up to seven years before clinical diagnosis.

AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain(davidepiffer.com)

524 points by rzk 2 months ago | 452 comments

A Substack essay by Davide Piffer arguing that AI's edge over mathematicians comes from a vast symbolic working memory rather than superior reasoning.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.