Scientists make a pocket-sized AI brain with help from monkey neurons

Researchers using data from macaque monkeys were able to shrink an AI vision model to a tiny fraction of its original size. AerialPerspective Images/Getty Images

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A human brain consumes less power than a light bulb, while artificial intelligence systems guzzle electricity to do the same tasks.

Now, scientists have created a highly efficient AI model that hints at how living brains are able to do so much with so little, a team reports in the journal Nature.

The model, which mimics a part of the brain’s visual system,

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