AI in Brain Research: How They Shape Each Other

The relationship between brain research and artificial intelligence runs both ways: the workings of the nervous system inspired part of today's learning systems, while machine learning now makes it possible to analyse volumes of brain data that were previously intractable. The talk takes up the question at the point where the data is produced: real-time, three-dimensional brain imaging. Acousto-optical multiphoton technology makes measurements in the living brain orders of magnitude faster, producing the resolution and data volume without which machine-learning models of brain function would not be possible. The recurring question: which direction has given more so far - AI to brain research, or brain research to AI?