{"id":219344,"date":"2026-03-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/scientists-make-a-pocket-sized-ai-brain-with-help-from-monkey-neurons-npr\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:40:13","slug":"scientists-make-a-pocket-sized-ai-brain-with-help-from-monkey-neurons-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/scientists-make-a-pocket-sized-ai-brain-with-help-from-monkey-neurons-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make a pocket-sized AI brain with help from monkey neurons : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists make a pocket-sized AI brain with help from monkey neurons : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-03-03 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n Researchers using data from macaque monkeys were able to shrink an AI vision model to a tiny fraction of its original size.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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The model, which mimics a part of the brain’s visual system, started out using 60 million variables. But the team was able to compress it into a version that performed nearly as well using just 10,000 variables.<\/p>\n

“That is incredibly small,” says Ben Cowley, an author of the study and an assistant professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. “This is something we could send in a tweet or an email.”<\/p>\n

The compact model also appears to work more like a living brain, which could help scientists study what goes wrong in diseases like Alzheimer’s, Cowley says.<\/p>\n

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More broadly, if the AI model really does replicate strategies found in nature, it could help scientists understand the inner workings of human brains, says Mitya Chklovskii, a group leader at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute, who was not involved in the study.<\/p>\n

Compact, biology-inspired models of the brain could also lead to “more powerful and more humanlike artificial intelligence,”…<\/p>\n

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