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UCLA researchers have made a significant discovery showing that biological brains and artificial intelligence systems develop ...

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Verses has been rethinking the neuron using a first-principles approach inspired by decades of research on how animals learn to minimize surprise and physical effort, called active inference. It ...

Predicting how molecular changes affect the brain's overall activity is a major challenge in neuroscience. Many deep ...

One of the most intelligent non-primate animals the research team has studied are elephants, which have 5.6 billion neurons. Though Herculano-Houzel notes they also have higher-than-typical neuron ...

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