Tag results for: neuroscience
A Virtual Social Life Is Possible with Brain-Machine Interfaces
A major goal of the field of neuroprosthetics has focused on improving the lives of paralyzed patients by restoring their lost real-world abilities. One example was the 2012 work...
Self-Taught AI May Have a Lot in Common With the Human Brain
For a decade now, many of the most impressive artificial intelligence systems have been taught using a huge inventory of labeled data. An image might be labeled “tabby...
VR Still Stinks Because It Doesn’t Smell
VR still stinks, and its stench has many notes. It reeks of rich white guys, who wildly overfund and consistently overhype the always-on-the-verge-of-a-breakthrough technology. It has a festering...
How ‘The Dress’ Sparked a Neuroscience Breakthrough
Back in 2015, before Brexit, before Trump, before Macedonian internet trolls, before QAnon and Covid conspiracy theories, before fake news and alternative facts, the disagreement over the Dress...
