Ex-computational neuroscientist reassures theorists: AI models are already our best models of the brain
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-28
A researcher who moved from computational neuroscience into AI responds to theorists worried about AI destroying their livelihoods. He notes AI vision models became better models of the visual cortex than decades of hand-built alternatives, and LLMs are now the best models of how language works in the brain — the paradigm has shifted to analyzing and adapting existing AI models. The tweet also cites announcements of new discoveries in harmonic analysis, complexity theory, and quantum field theory.
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