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Shelly Fan
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Writer, Singularity Hub
San Francisco
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Personal Training , Weight Loss , Fitness , Product Reviews , Nutrition
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By Shelly Fan| Singularity Hub Verified Grabbing a coffee cup seems easy. But you need to be able to move your hand, stretch it out, and keep it steady. These movements are difficult for people with Parkinson’s disease. The disorder eats away at brain cells—called dopamine neurons—that control movement and emotion. Symptoms begin with tremors. Then muscles lock up. Eventually, the disease makes walking and sleeping difficult. Thinking gets harder, and as neurons die, people lose their concentration and memory.
By Shelly Fan| Singularity Hub Verified Let a mouse nose around a house, and it will rapidly find food and form a strategy to return to it without getting caught. Given the same task, an AI would require millions of training examples and consume a boatload of energy and time. Evolution has crafted the brain to quickly learn and adapt to an ever-changing world. Detailing its algorithms—the ways it processes information as revealed by its structure and wiring—could inspire more advanced AI.
By Shelly Fan| Singularity Hub Verified Grabbing a coffee cup seems easy. But you need to be able to move your hand, stretch it out, and keep it steady. These movements are difficult for people with Parkinson’s disease. The disorder eats away at brain cells—called dopamine neurons—that control movement and emotion. Symptoms begin with tremors. Then muscles lock up. Eventually, the disease makes walking and sleeping difficult. Thinking gets harder, and as neurons die, people lose their concentration and memory.
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Singularity Hub