Bird Model Tapped for AI

Steve Nadis | MIT Spectrum

MIT researchers are seeking to revolutionize AI technology by reproducing a vital component of the neural circuitry of the zebra finch. For decades, scientists have recognized that the songbird learning process could shed light on how humans acquire languages and other skills. Now, a team of MIT researchers is going a step further: in a novel collaboration supported by the MIT Quest for Intelligence, they are trying to revolutionize artificial intelligence (AI) technology by reproducing, in the form of computational hardware, a vital component of the zebra finch’s neural circuitry.

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