Danilo Bzdok
@danilobzdok
Research director | @McGillU @Mila_Quebec @IVADO_Qc | My team designs machine learning frameworks to understand biological systems from new angles of attack
How can #LLMs make a difference in #neuroscience and #biomedicine ? Language has more human information per bit than potentially any other form of data. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Great collabo with @sivareddyg + @MindstateDesign. @Mila_Quebec @TheNeuro_MNI @mcgillu
We're launching an "AI psychiatry" team as part of interpretability efforts at Anthropic! We'll be researching phenomena like model personas, motivations, and situational awareness, and how they lead to spooky/unhinged behaviors. We're hiring - join us! job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs…
Great workshop - thanks again for inviting me to Banff.
This week at BIRS: Novel Statistical Approaches for Studying Multi-omics Data birs.ca/events/2025/5-…
“This is a gamechanger for the field.” A study co-authored by professor of neurology @ndosenbach with @NUSingapore shows how to optimize brain scans for designing smarter and more cost-effective studies of neurological and psychiatric conditions.
Nature research paper: Longer scans boost prediction and cut costs in brain-wide association studies go.nature.com/46fWRFe
What are "omics"? A good schematic cell.com/neuron/fulltex… could add epigenomics, immunomics, microbiomics, glycomics, exposomics, etc
How do rare genetic mutations that affect multiple genes simultaneously shape brain development and behavioral outcomes in adolescents beyond just cognitive deficits?@natBME @Mila_Quebec "A pattern-learning algorithm associates copy number variations with brain structure and…
1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @Leon_Oo1 @csabaorban @ZShaoshi doi.org/10.1038/s41586… It is well-known that AI performance scales with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan, McCandlish 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements...
Our new @CellCellPress review on the generative A.I. era in medicine @pranavrajpurkar cell.com/cell/fulltext/…
Grok 4 is at the point where it essentially never gets math/physics exam questions wrong, unless they are skillfully adversarial. It can identify errors or ambiguities in questions, then fix the error in the question or answer each variant of an ambiguous question.
Insane that Elon Musk has pulled it off again, absolutely crushing the AI wars with Grok 4. Summarizing the core announcements: — Post-training RL spend == pretraining spend — $3/M input told, $15/M output toks, 256k context, price 2x beyond 128k — #1 on Humanity’s Last Exam…
PDF preview available here (no paywall): nature.com/articles/s4146…
Register today for the Virtual Cell Challenge and use AI to solve one of biology’s most complex problems. Announced in @CellCellPress, the competition is hosted by Arc Institute and sponsored by @nvidia, @10xGenomics, and @UltimaGenomics.
Demis Hassabis is calling on philosophers to step in. He says technologists shouldn't decide AGI's future alone. “We need a new Kant or Wittgenstein to help map out where society should go next.” Politics, ethics, and theology will be essential to navigating a post-AGI world.
Our paper Prisma: An Open Source Toolkit for Mechanistic Interpretability in Vision and Video received an Oral at the Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision Workshop at CVPR 2025! 🎉 We’ll be in Nashville next week. Come say hi 👋 @CVPR @miv_cvpr2025
Looking forward to speak at Oxford next week.
Our next #OxAI4MH speaker is Professor @danilobzdok of @McGillU and @Mila_Quebec discussing "Large language models deconstruct the clinical intuition behind diagnosing autism" Tuesday 10th June 15:00 UK time Open to all Abstract and Zoom link: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1d390…
Our #LLM #explainability toolkit is out !
Our paper Prisma: An Open Source Toolkit for Mechanistic Interpretability in Vision and Video received an Oral at the Mechanistic Interpretability for Vision Workshop at CVPR 2025! 🎉 We’ll be in Nashville next week. Come say hi 👋 @CVPR @miv_cvpr2025
I am impressed by this book I am currently reading: Kissinger's posthumous publication, offering careful consideration on: -strong anthropological views on the current AI evolution -modes in which #AI could take space as a physical and intellectual actor on the planet -how modes…
