The areas and systems behind voluntary movement — Moving our body is something of a magic trick; we just think about it, and it seems to happen. Usually, we don’t consciously go through all the steps needed when we aim for a certain thing or direction, and our bodies just reach out or start walking in that direction…

Perceiving the world and ourselves. — Sensory perception enables us to perceive and interact with the world around us including ourselves. It begins with the reception of sensory information from the environment & our own body and ends with the mostly conscious awareness of these stimuli. In this article, I’ll try to extract and overview the…

The early brain map that keeps on giving. — Chances are, if you’re curious about the brain, neuroscience, or cognition, you’ll eventually come across Brodmann Areas as a reference or part of some other system or brain-related explanation. Here, we’ll take a closer look at them with an eye towards their functions. — — — — — — —…

Introduction — Trying to understand and recreate the brain and cognition has been a long-term interest of mine, but I must admit it is a daunting task. You can take a functional, evolutionary, and anatomical approach, but it’s easy to get bogged down in details and tangents. I’m not saying these aren’t…

On advanced and maybe flawed conversational AIs. — This is a critical, big-picture look at ChatGPT and other advanced conversational AIs. If you are looking for a primer on ChatGPT, the best way to get to grips with it is to simply try using it. …

How to feed the machine. — So you figured out what problem you want to tackle with AI and have your data ready, what now ? Well, nobody tells you this when you start but AIs and algorithms need data presented in very specific ways in order for them to train and later predict or do…

Late 2022, with examples. — It’s hard to keep pace with AI these days as new papers, implementations and even consumer facing products seem to sprout periodically, the purpose of this post is to investigate what the main tasks in general are behind current AIs in hopes to get a better sense of the general…

A little joy, a little sorrow. — Somewhere nested in the goal of Human Level Intelligence and/or AGI there’s emotions, specifically human emotions that future AIs might need to recreate or at least understand, so here we will be taking a look at emotions and how they could be implemented in AIs if at all. — —…

What’s out there for us to see? — I originally wanted to make this a post about making Real Time Neural Network Visualizations which is what I need for my current projects but I think the topic is interesting enough to have an overview on the existing Artificial Neural Network Visualizations out there ( regardless of the real…