Brad Aimone
Computational neuroscientist-in-exile; computational neuromorphic computing; putting neurons in HPC since 2011; dreaming of a day when AI will actually be brain-like.
- Maybe cynical, but any time a scientist says "We should leave AI to industry" it is because they are scared about $$ going to something they don't work on I've heard for >10 years "let industry lead" and we have LLMs, power plants & data centers #NeuroAI needs research, not just venture capital
- There is plenty of space to innovate in #NeuroAI. The issue has been that neuroscientists don't even try as they assume industry will do it. Deferring AI and neural computing to an industry that only cares about selling ads is not a way to help further our understanding of the brain.
- My prediction / hope for 2026: this will be the year we start seeing the theoretical neuroscience and #NeuroAI fields start embracing spiking as something beyond a poor man's ReLU. Spikes aren't just the brain's activation function but they are fundamentally different. 1/ 🧠🧪🤖
- The thing is neuros *know* this; our models have never been "oh, neurons have only one lousy bit; bummer..." but for the last ~10 years we've let the NeurIPS / AI crowd strawman the brain and spikes. Even to the point of "yeah, I guess our models don't actually need spikes either...". Stop that! 2/