Neuroscientist by training, tinkerer by nature. Now scanning transparent mouse brains with light-sheet microscopes. Microscopy, clearing, data crunching, tinkering.
Working as postdoc at @radboudumc with Nael Nadif Kasri and Corette Wierenga, looking at neuron-distribution differences in mouse models of ASD.
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Journal of Cell Science are accepting submissions for their upcoming special issue - Imaging Cell Architecture and Dynamics. This issue will be coordinated by Francesca Bottanelli (Freie Universitรคt Berlin, Germany) and Giulia Zanetti (The Francis Crick Institute, UK), alongside JCS Editor Guillaume Jacquemet (ร bo Akademi University, Finland).
Extended deadline: 1 May 2026
@blogdiva For comparison, gas in my corner of Europe would be about 13.5 USD/gallon right now.
(This is in NL, arguably one of the pricier markets but not the most expensive by far. 2.33โฌ/L E95 gasoline = 11.8 โฌ/gal (4.5L) = 13.56$.
For the last few years it would have been closer to 10$, so this isn't much of a spike yet. I expect prices will keep rising as the supply constraints start to hit.)
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I doubt that anything resembling genuine "artificial general intelligence" is within reach of current #AI tools. However, I think a weaker, but still quite valuable, type of "artificial general cleverness" is becoming a reality in various ways.
By "general cleverness", I mean the ability to solve broad classes of complex problems via somewhat ad hoc means. These means may be stochastic or the result of brute force computation; they may be ungrounded or fallible; and they may be either uninterpretable, or traceable back to similar tricks found in an AI's training data. So they would not qualify as the result of any true "intelligence". And yet, they can have a non-trivial success rate at achieving an increasingly wide spectrum of tasks, particularly when coupled with stringent verification procedures to filter out incorrect or unpromising approaches, at scales beyond what individual humans could achieve.
This results in the somewhat unintuitive combination of a technology that can be very useful and impressive, while simultaneously being fundamentally unsatisfying and disappointing - somewhat akin to how one's awe at an amazingly clever magic trick can dissipate (or transform to technical respect) once one learns how the trick was performed.
But perhaps this can be resolved by the realization that while cleverness and intelligence are somewhat correlated traits for humans, they are much more decoupled for AI tools (which are often optimized for cleverness), and viewing the current generation of such tools primarily as a stochastic generator of sometimes clever - and often useful - thoughts and outputs may be a more productive perspective when trying to use them to solve difficult problems.
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