Philip Shiu | Towards embodied, whole brain emulations
Foresight Institute’s Neurotech Group
Towards embodied, whole brain emulations
Abstract: Embodied, whole-brain emulations of animals, based on the connectome of their brain, would advance AI, accelerate mental health treatments, and may be a path towards aligned AI and furthering human flourishing. In this talk, I will discuss efforts to create embodied models of brains. Using the connectome of a fruit fly, I and others used simple biophysical neural models, and showed that this produced reasonably accurate models of neural activity. Next, we’ve embodied this brain model. At the end of this talk, I’ll discuss paths towards embodied whole-brain emulations in mammals.
Bio: Philip Shiu is a neuroscientist, and Head of Engineering at Eon Systems. During his postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley, he mapped the Drosophila taste system, and created a whole-brain simulation of the fly brain. He received his PhD from Harvard University, where he studied gene silencing in C. elegans. He is recipient of a NIH F32 postdoctoral fellowship, a NSF GRFP fellowship, and a Foresight Fellowship.
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