AI, Philosophy & Thought News ・ 🇯🇵 Japanese thought and AI
Japanese media · 10/17 17:00 UTC
On October 5, the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three US and German scientists who established optogenetics, which controls neurons by genetically modifying them and shining light on them. At the announcement press conference, a question was raised about whether this could offer clues to what happens inside AI. The reporter had wondered after hearing that optogenetics made it possible to draw maps of brain function.