The award, considered the Korean Nobel Prize, recognizes Lee s research on the neural mechanisms of decision-making By Annika Weder / Published May 3, 2021
The 2021 Samsung Ho-am Prize in Medicine has been awarded to Daeyeol Lee, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of neuroscience, in recognition of his research on the neural mechanisms of decision-making by incorporating theoretical frameworks from economics into neuroscientific research to study the function of the prefrontal cortex.
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The prize established in 1991 and often referred to as the Korean equivalent of the Nobel Prize is awarded annually to Koreans or individuals of Korean heritage who have contributed to academics, the arts, and social development, or who have furthered the welfare of humanity through distinguished accomplishments in their respective professional fields. Also among this year s laureates, recei
Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Daeyeol Lee s new book explores the definition of true intelligence By Katie Pearce / Published Winter 2020
Daeyeol Lee is not concerned about artificial intelligence surpassing that of human beings the hypothetical event known as technological singularity anytime in our life spans. As the Johns Hopkins neuroscientist sees it, true intelligence requires life, and AI doesn t have that. Bacteria do. Plants do. Machines do not.
In fact, he says, the debate over whether AI can develop real intelligence is meaningless until we first define what intelligence is.
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Lee s new book,
The Birth of Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2020), sets out with that purpose. Drawing the latest insights from neuroscience, along with bits of biology, psychology, economics, computer science, and even philosophy, the book offers a sweeping review of the evolution of intelligence, f