George Musser

New York

Freelance Writer and Contributing Editor at Freelance

Contributing Writer at Quanta Magazine

Scientific American, Quanta - author of Spooky Action at a Distance - https://t.co/Xk8zWMCSMG - https://t.co/kDYMYdNSRo - https://t.co/jDjis0j3Y6

Articles

Did Google just get closer to proving the multiverse? It's complicated.

2 months ago | audacy.com | Lauren Barry |Chris Blake |Mike Rogers |George Musser

Google recently announced that it created a new computer chip, Willow, that can perform "mindboggling" computations - so mindboggling that Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven said it might indicate we live in a multiverse. The multiverse theory is popular in science fiction, but scientists don't agree that if it exists in reality. Does Google's new chip bring us a step closer to proving it?
Künstliches Bewusstsein: Mit KI das menschliche Denken verstehen

Nov 22, 2024 | spektrum.de | George Musser

Hintergrund Lesedauer ca. 17 Minuten DruckenTeilen Künstliches Bewusstsein: Mit KI das menschliche Denken verstehenDie Entwicklung einer allgemeinen künstlichen Intelligenz, die wie Menschen denken soll, bietet Einblicke in die Intelligenz selbst. Eine besondere Rolle spielt dabei das Bewusstsein.
Are Alternate Timelines Real? Quantum Physics Explains

Nov 13, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | George Musser

As memes go, it wasn’t particularly viral. But for a couple of hours on the morning of November 6, the term “darkest timeline” trended in Google searches, and several physicists posted musings on social media about whether we were actually in it.
L’IA peut-elle nous aider à comprendre notre cerveau ?

Oct 3, 2024 | cerveauetpsycho.fr | George Musser

À sa conception, l’objectif de l’IA n’était pas de concurrencer un grand maître aux échecs, ni de produire des œuvres artistiques à foison. Le but véritable était de reproduire des caractéristiques de notre intelligence pour mieux en comprendre le fonctionnement. Et c’est toujours cet objectif que poursuivent les chercheurs qui tentent aujourd’hui de construire, non pas une IA, mais une IGA.
Putting a bright idea to the test

Aug 21, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Shaena Montanari |Linda Nordling |George Musser |Sarah DeWeerdt

ReporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Brain stimulation, Alzheimer’s disease, Amyloid beta, Optogenetics The first big surprise came sometime around 2014, Li-Huei Tsai says. A doctoral student in her lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had come to her with an idea for an experiment: Hunter Iaccarino wanted to induce gamma rhythms in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease and measure the effects on amyloid beta levels in the brain.
The Transmitter Launch: Q&A with Kaitlyn Casimo

Jun 6, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Alaina G. Levine |Linda Nordling |George Musser

Kaitlyn Casimo loves her job. Every day is different, she says, and she draws on her varied background to tackle her work as education and engagement manager at the Allen Institute. Armed with a Ph.D. in neuroscience, certificates in computational neuroscience and neural engineering, an M.Ed. in instructional design and experience directing plays, Casimo oversees a team of six people to organize dozens of outreach events and activities at the institute each year.
The perils of parachute research

Jun 6, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | Linda Nordling |George Musser |Rebecca Horne |Jill Adams

Share this article: Tags: Spectrum, Academia, Autism, Ethics, Health care, Publishing In 2010, Rosa Hoekstra was feeling adrift in her career studying how genetics and biological processes affect psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions. Her research at the University of Cambridge was predominantly lab based, and Hoekstra says she felt unsure about its impact, wondering whom it would benefit and how.
Can an emerging field called ‘neural systems understanding’ explain the brain?

Jun 5, 2024 | thetransmitter.org | George Musser |Linda Nordling |Sarah DeWeerdt |Angie Voyles Askham

Contributing writer Share this article: Tags: Neural networks, Artificial intelligence, Audio research news, Language, Learning, Modeling, Neuroscience, Systems neuroscience, Vision Listen to this story: Your browser doesn't support the audio element Download Had you stumbled into a certain New York University auditorium in March 2023, you might have thought you were at a pure neuroscience conference.
Can an emerging field called ‘neural systems understanding’ explain the brain?

Jun 5, 2024 | flipboard.com | George Musser

Vocabulary1 day ago‘Most offensive word in the English language’ never actually used to be so tabooLADbible • 1dThe most offensive word out there today never used to be taken so seriously, but the English language and people over the years have made it so.
The Man Who Thinks A.I. Is Sentient

Jun 3, 2024 | criticalopalescence.com | George Musser

Two years ago this week, Google suspended software engineer Blake Lemoine after he argued that artificial intelligence chatbots were sentient. In the public eye, he became the poster child for a certain naïve anthropomorphism about AI. Researchers had fully expected that as soon as a machine could talk like a human, most people would assume it must think like one, and here, it seemed, was someone who had fallen into the trap.