Catalyzing next-generation Artificial Intelligence through NeuroAI.

Journal: Nature communications
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Abstract

Neuroscience has long been an essential driver of progress in artificial intelligence (AI). We propose that to accelerate progress in AI, we must invest in fundamental research in NeuroAI. A core component of this is the embodied Turing test, which challenges AI animal models to interact with the sensorimotor world at skill levels akin to their living counterparts. The embodied Turing test shifts the focus from those capabilities like game playing and language that are especially well-developed or uniquely human to those capabilities - inherited from over 500 million years of evolution - that are shared with all animals. Building models that can pass the embodied Turing test will provide a roadmap for the next generation of AI.

Authors

  • Anthony Zador
    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA. Electronic address: zador@cshl.edu.
  • Sean Escola
    Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA.
  • Blake Richards
    McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; Mila, Montreal, QC, Canada; CIFAR, Toronto, ON, Canada.
  • Bence Ölveczky
    Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA.
  • Yoshua Bengio
    Université de Montréal, Montréal QC H3T 1N8, Canada.
  • Kwabena Boahen
    Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
  • Matthew Botvinick
    DeepMind, London, UK. botvinick@google.com.
  • Dmitri Chklovskii
    Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation, New York, NY, 10010, USA.
  • Anne Churchland
    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.
  • Claudia Clopath
    Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, Royal School of Mines, London, SW7 2AZ, UK. c.clopath@imperial.ac.uk.
  • James DiCarlo
    Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA.
  • Surya Ganguli
    Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States.
  • Jeff Hawkins
    Numenta, Redwood City, CA, 94063, USA.
  • Konrad Kording
    Laura Prosser, PhD, PTR is a Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania and a physical therapist, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
  • Alexei Koulakov
    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724, USA.
  • Yann LeCun
    1] Facebook AI Research, 770 Broadway, New York, New York 10003 USA. [2] New York University, 715 Broadway, New York, New York 10003, USA.
  • Timothy Lillicrap
    Google DeepMind, 5 New Street Square, London EC4A 3TW, UK.
  • Adam Marblestone
    Kernel, Los Angeles, California; and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  • Bruno Olshausen
    Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA.
  • Alexandre Pouget
    Department of Basic Neuroscience, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland; email: Ruben.CoenCagli@unige.ch , alexandre.pouget@unige.ch.
  • Cristina Savin
    Center for Neural Science, NYU, New York, NY, 10003, USA.
  • Terrence Sejnowski
    Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
  • Eero Simoncelli
    Departments of Neural Science, Mathematics, and Psychology, NYU, New York, NY, 10003, USA.
  • Sara Solla
    Department of Physiology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
  • David Sussillo
    Department of Electrical Engineering and Neurosciences Program, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
  • Andreas S Tolias
    Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany.
  • Doris Tsao
    Caltech, Pasadena, USA.