Neuroscientist Anthony Zador, MD, PhD, will present the 27th annual Swartz Foundation Mind Brain Lecture on Monday, March 31, at 4 pm on Staller Center’s Main Stage. Dr. Zador works at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence. He is the Alle Davis Harris Professor of Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he served as chair of Neuroscience. The lecture is free and intended for a general audience. The lecture will be livestreamed at stonybrook.edu/live.
The Mind Brain Lecture Series is hosted by Stony Brook’s Department of Neurobiology and Behavior and is supported by the Swartz Foundation, which launched the lecture series at Stony Brook University in 1997.
A Neuroscientist’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence
Over the past decade, AI has made stunning advances, from mastering language to solving the structure of proteins. These breakthroughs arise from more than 40 years of work in neural networks, where ideas from neuroscience have inspired solutions in AI.
In this lecture, Dr. Zador will explore how reverse engineering the brain’s computations has driven progress in both fields and how this back-and-forth between neuroscience and AI is set to grow even stronger — with brain-inspired designs driving new AI advances while AI tools transform our understanding of how the brain works.