David Sussillo on where AI and neuroscience might still meet
AnnaCiaunica · x · 2026-10-28
Computational neuroscientist David Sussillo, who spent nearly two decades at Google Brain and Meta Reality Labs, discusses with The Transmitter how the fields diverged: neuroscience gave AI its start — McCulloch and Pitts abstracted the artificial neuron from biological neurons in the 1940s — but AI no longer draws its guiding principles from the brain.
He argues that in the short term AI will likely help neuroscience (analyzing neural data), while in the long term neuroscience may still unveil secrets useful for AI. The interview also covers where the biggest opportunities lie for neuroscientists today.
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