Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

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Vision, neural networks, and open brain science. RT means "This may deserve more attention". Like means "I have read this (e.g. paper) and think it's solid."

Joined June 2014

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Nikolaus Kriegeskorte @KriegeskorteLab Aug 28

To learn how brains compute, we need to experimentally adjudicate among competing computational hypotheses. How do we do this in the age of complex neural network models? New review paper: “Making models disagree to learn how brains compute” with @TalGolanNeuro, @SchuettHeiko

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte @KriegeskorteLab Nov 3

Between the Digital Brain Project digitalbrainproject.org & the Stanford Digital Brain Project, there'll be a new scale of human brain-activity data to train on. Let's build a large-scale collaborative effort. Recordings of our workshop on Human Brain Foundation Models are here... kriegeskorte-lab.github.io/ccn-satellite-…

Daniel Yamins Verified account @dyamins Nov 2

Stanford Digital Brain Project has launched! We're hoping to make a seriously useful model of the human brain. Please come join us! news.stanford.edu/stories/2026/1…
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Nikolaus Kriegeskorte @KriegeskorteLab Oct 21

Social media play a critical role in democratic discourse – for better or worse, but they are not designed for this purpose. Instead social media companies started with inspired initial designs and have been maximizing engagement (for ad revenue) for a decade or two. 1/7

Nikolaus Kriegeskorte @KriegeskorteLab Oct 4

“Do not bet against the airplane. The skeptics who say AI can't conjecture, can't theorize, and can't explain are describing last spring's models. Within months, that description will no longer hold. The evidence is clear, and those with eyes can see it. Anyone who stakes their identity on "AI can't do task X" is building on sand.” Indeed.

Christian Szegedy Verified account @ChrSzegedy Oct 3

Reading all those recent beautiful essays by Terry Tao, Kevin Buzzard and @wtgowers, I could not resist, but write up my deeply personal perspective on how I perceive and see things:

docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…
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Nikolaus Kriegeskorte @KriegeskorteLab Oct 1

We should hope for the incentives to be roughly but not precisely aligned with our ideals. How else would we know we're real?

Dan Williams Verified account @danwilliamsphil Oct 1

I have a new essay out. It is on human nature, cynicism, evolution, and Tinder, among other things. conspicuouscognition.com/p/the-face-gro…

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