How a Worm’s Brain is Redefining Intelligence

​Despite decades of progress, the human brain still remains too complex to fully decode. But there are simpler organisms with low level neural systems which can serve as powerful models to build nature-inspired intelligent AI systems.

​Caenorhabditis elegans, a 1 mm worm sharing ~70% of its protein-coding genes with humans, is one such model. Unlike transformer based models, which relies on dense, data-hungry architectures, the worm’s brain runs on sparse, adaptive circuits.

​This talk explores how C. Elegans is inspiring a novel architecture — leaner, biologically grounded, and designed to adapt in continuous time.

​About the Speakers:
Dr. Ranita Jana and Shapath Das
Founders of Unsupervized
LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/ranitajana
www.linkedin.com/in/shapathdas
Previously incubated at Tel Aviv University, Israel