Message from the project leader

Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science: Five years and beyond

Our project Correspondence and Fusion of Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science started in 2016 with the aim of reconnecting artificial intelligence and brain science research for the development of new learning algorithms and the elucidation of brain mechanisms. Through collaboration of planned and publicly offered research groups, we extended our research activities in three directions: AI to Brain, Brain to AI, and AI-Brain Fusion.

In five years of activities, we achieved novel brain scientific discoveries, developed new AI technologies, and created a network of researchers from both fields working together with the common interest in the origin of intelligence. We are glad to see young researchers acquiring the knowledge and methods in of both AI and brain science and aspiring to lead future science and technology.

The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science that we organized in October 2020 attracted more than 1,800 registered participants, and we published a special issue of Neural Networks based on the symposium.

The international network and young researchers fostered through this project would further advance the research through fusion of AI and brain science. We are grateful to the KAKENHI on Innovative Areas and its reviewers, advisors, program offices, and secretariats for making this possible, and everybody who participated in our research activities and events.

Kenji Doya
Professor, Neural Computation Unit
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University