Artificial intelligence is incredibly good at playing video games. But a recent experiment ended up with an AI agent that beat ‘80s classic Q*bert in a way no one has ever seen before.
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MIT researchers have come up with a new way to measure electrical activity in the brain. Their new light-sensitive protein can be embedded into neuron membranes, where it emits a fluorescent signal that indicates how much voltage a particular cell is experiencing. This could allow scientists to study how neurons behave, millisecond by millisecond, as the brain performs a particular function.
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Academics, economists, and AI researchers often undervalue the role of intuition in science. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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