{"id":192290,"date":"2026-03-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/scientists-make-a-pocket-sized-ai-brain-with-help-from-monkey-neurons-npr\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T11:06:55","slug":"scientists-make-a-pocket-sized-ai-brain-with-help-from-monkey-neurons-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.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":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/03\/nx-s1-5729433\/ai-brain-monkey-neurons\">Scientists make a pocket-sized AI brain with help from monkey neurons : NPR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/03\/nx-s1-5729433\/ai-brain-monkey-neurons\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/03\/nx-s1-5729433\/ai-brain-monkey-neurons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-03 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.npr.org\">www.npr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers successfully developed an efficient AI model that mimics a part of the human visual system for better understanding of brain functions.<\/li>\n<li>Originating from training data from macaque monkeys, an AI model initially composed of 60 million variables was compressed into one with just 10,000 variables.<\/li>\n<li>The compact AI mimics functionalities of human V4 neurons, which encode colors, textures, and curves, providing insights into the capabilities of human brains.<\/li>\n<li>The study highlights how human brains operate efficiently despite using less power, raising questions on the complexity of current AI systems.<\/li>\n<li>Potential implications include the development of simpler yet more powerful AI systems that could perform tasks like self-driving cars with less computational power.<\/li>\n<li>Understanding the brain&#8217;s functions might be essential to developing AI models that work as flexibly as a human brain, despite smaller sizes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists make a pocket-sized AI brain with help from monkey neurons : NPR https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/03\/03\/nx-s1-5729433\/ai-brain-monkey-neurons Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/1969x1108+0+208\/resize\/1400\/quality\/85\/format\/jpeg\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0e%2F0c%2Fa062460341d9b04fc329d3158818%2Fgettyimages-931364086.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192292,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192290\/revisions\/192292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}