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Blake Richards
@tyrell_turing
Researcher at @mcgillu combining AI and neuroscience. Also on Bluesky (@tyrellturing.bsky.social) and Mastodon: @[email protected].
Montréal, Québec
linclab.mila.quebec
Joined April 2013
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    Blake Richards
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    Oct 26, 2023
    Check out this new paper: Led by @mehdiazabou and @evadyer, we show that it is possible to get SOTA brain decoding with transfer across individuals and tasks! The key is a clever way to tokenize spiking data for transformers. #brain #neurotech #NeurIPS2023
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    Mehdi Azabou @ NeurIPS
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    Oct 25, 2023
    Is a universal brain decoder possible? Can we train a decoding system that easily transfers to new individuals/tasks? Check out our #NeurIPS2023 paper where we show that it’s possible to transfer from a large pretrained model to achieve SOTA 🧠! Link: poyo-brain.github.io 🧵
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    Blake Richards
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    Jan 15, 2020
    Me: Can I get reimbursed for these conference expenses? Admin: Can you prove you went? M: Here are my badges. A: Can you link to the conference website to show it's real? M: Oh sh*t, you caught me! These were fraudulent badges I made to steal $1000 out of my own grant! 🙄
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    Blake Richards
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    Oct 28, 2019
    1/ SciTwitter: I'm very excited to share our new Perspective article out in Nature Neuroscience today!
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    A deep learning framework for neuroscience
    From nature.com
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    Blake Richards
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    Mar 6, 2020
    Okay, academia, I'm gonna say it: If none of us are willing to review papers cause we're all too busy, then we should just switch to everything being on arXiv/bioRxiv and letting time and the market-place of ideas decide what is a legit finding or not.
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    Blake Richards
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    Jun 13, 2022
    Did you know that humans only have 0.72 consciousness?
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    Ethan Caballero
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    Jun 13, 2022
    We're thrilled to share a plot from our upcoming paper "Scaling Laws for Consciousness of Artificial Neural Networks". We find that Artificial Neural Networks with greater than 10^15 parameters are more conscious than humans are:
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    Blake Richards
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    Jun 5, 2023
    I've just received tenure 🎉 - just in time for a summer of AI existential risk conversations in highly public forums, which works well I guess... 🙃
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    Blake Richards
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    May 30, 2023
    1/4) Several people I admire immensely have signed this, but respectfully, I'm afraid I just don't agree with the claim that "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority". I think this statement is naive and a mistake.
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    Center for AI Safety
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    May 30, 2023
    We’ve released a statement on the risk of extinction from AI. Signatories include: - Three Turing Award winners - Authors of the standard textbooks on AI/DL/RL - CEOs and Execs from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Google DeepMind, Anthropic - Many more safe.ai/statement-on-a…
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    Blake Richards
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    Jun 10, 2020
    1/ For #ShutDownSTEM today, our lab put aside research and crafted some concrete ideas for what we can do to help reduce anti-black/indig. racism, and more broadly, increase diversity in STEM. Our focus was local, specific acts to the lab. I wanted to share what we came up with.
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    Blake Richards
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    Nov 24, 2018
    Announcement, pls RT: I am very excited to announce that my lab (linclab.org) is going to move to Montréal to join @mcgillu and @MILAMontreal in August 2019! I've accepted a joint position in Computer Science (cs.mcgill.ca) and the @TheNeuro_MNI!
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    Blake Richards
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    Feb 27, 2020
    1/ I want to very briefly address this article that came out today by @MatthewCobb in the Guardian:
    Why your brain is not a computer
    From theguardian.com
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    Blake Richards
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    Oct 25, 2022
    I am so honoured and grateful to receive this award from @NSERC_CRSNG. NSERC has been a constant pillar of support in my career, from grad school to today, and this fellowship will help me and my group push hard on our most exciting ideas. So, thank you NSERC, and stay tuned!
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    NSERC / CRSNG
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    Oct 25, 2022
    🏆 Blake Richards @mcgillu wins an Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship in recognition of outstanding contributions to the fields of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. ▶️tinyurl.com/yc8bd9sh @tyrell_turing #NSERC_Prizes
    IMAGE: Portrait of Blake Richards (McGill University) in front of a mural, with a logo in white for NSERC PRIZES 2022, on the left.
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    Blake Richards
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    Sep 23, 2020
    In this week's issue of Neuron: Artificial Neural Networks for Neuroscientists: A Primer
    Artificial Neural Networks for Neuroscientists: A Primer
    From cell.com
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    Blake Richards
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    Sep 14, 2019
    1/ #tweeprint time everybody! It's about neural coding (and I mean that literally). We asked the following Q: if info is encoded in the neocortex with both rate and synchrony of spikes, do different subtypes of neurons display differential sensitivity to these two info streams?
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    Blake Richards
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    Nov 7, 2023
    1/ What is the organization of mouse visual cortex across regions? In our latest work led by Rudi Tong and Stuart Trenholm, now out on bioRxiv (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) we mapped the "feature landscape" of mouse visual cortex. Here is a #tweeprint thread about what we found.
    Image generated by prompt of "mouse looking at itself in the mirror in the style of Picasso"
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