Trading places: What happens when neuroscience turns into machine learning, and machine learning turns into neuroscience? | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction, and machine learning with causal explanation, with each field adopting methods from the other. I asked eight experts to weigh in on what…
Learning limits: Cross talk between machine learning and neuroscience can be valuable for revealing the limitations of the field’s tools and assumptions. Illustration by Scott Balmer Neuroscience has become increasingly concerned with prediction, and machine learning with causal explanation, with each field adopting methods from the other. I asked eight experts to weigh in on what we stand to learn from this exchange. Like most sciences, neuroscience has historically sought causal explanations for empirical phenomena. Machine learning, in contrast, has historically sought to engineer…
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