BrainVista: Modeling Naturalistic Brain Dynamics as Multimodal Next-Token Prediction
Naturalistic fMRI offers a time-resolved window into cortical dynamics during continuous multimodal experience, where future brain states are jointly governed…
How AI Helps Recyclers Turn Mixed Waste Into Reusable Material
Vision AI and robotics pick what’s worth recovering out of conveyor belts of used clothing, bottles and mixed recyclables, diverting…
The Day the Take-Home Essay Died: How I Stopped Grading AI and Started Designing Real Learning
By the fall of 2023, at the start of the school year, I was following the familiar rhythm most teachers…
Unequal causes and consequences of AI use
Generative AI enters organizations rife with inequality. Here, we propose a recursive process whereby inequality can drive marginalized group members…
Study planning is better served by Monte Carlo simulation than AI-generated participants
‘Silicon samples’, AI-generated synthetic data based on demographic profiles, have been proposed to help plan research. Here, I argue that…
Give biologists the space to be curious, not just better tools
As the Francis Crick Institute in London celebrates its tenth anniversary and I look back on my first year as…
Can Schools Prepare Students to Vote Without Telling Them What to Think?
Teaching an election is like walking a tightrope. A student can now ask a chatbot about any candidate and get…
Long-term training continually fine tunes motor memories
Humans’ rapid adaptation to new dynamics is a crucial ability for interacting with the world. By combining the controlled manipulations…
Tensegrity continuum robots enable task-adaptive morphologies for cooperative behaviours
Robots that can change their morphologies and behaviours for different tasks and environments hold great promise for adaptable, multifunctional systems.…
Build a daily dependency watcher with LangGraph and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore web search
AI agents increasingly handle work that depends on what changed today, such as security advisories, product releases, prices, and regulations.…