Toward Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence: Catalyzing the NeuroAI Revolution

Understand

Neuroscience has long been an essential driver of progress in artificial intelligence (AI).

• We propose that to accelerate progress in AI, we must invest in fundamental research in NeuroAI.
• A core component of this is the embodied Turing test, which challenges AI animal models to interact with the sensorimotor world at skill levels akin to their living counterparts.
• The embodied Turing test shifts the focus from those capabilities like game playing and language that are especially well-developed or uniquely human to those capabilities, inherited from over 500 million years of evolution, that are shared with all animals.