Allen Seeks Brain Like AI to Pass Tests and Understand Mind
Seattle-based Paul Allen, 62 and worth about 17.7 billion, funds two AI neuroscience ventures. One aims to build an artificial brain that passes a high school science test, the other to reverse engineer the brain by modeling and simulating its pieces. Allen collaborates with UI researcher Oren Etzioni and Caltech’s Christof Koch to pursue these parallel paths toward smarter machines and deeper insights into human intelligence.
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Tunisian civil society quartet wins 2015 Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Committee awarded the prize to four Tunisian civil society groups for fostering democracy amid unrest since 2011. The alliance, including a labor union with about 1 million members, helped mediate between Islamists and secularists and prevented democratic collapse after 2013.
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