Towards Embodied, Whole Brain Emulations

Embodied, whole-brain emulations of animals, based on the connectome of their brain, would advance AI, accelerate mental health treatments, and may be a path towards aligned AI and furthering human flourishing. In this talk, I will discuss efforts to create embodied models of brains. Using the connectome of a fruit fly, I and others used simple biophysical neural models, and showed that this produced reasonably accurate models of neural activity. Next, we’ve embodied this brain model. At the end of this talk, I’ll discuss paths towards embodied whole-brain emulations in mammals.