Is there really that much more funding if a neuro lab starts doing more AI inspired stuff? Because they can’t just drop biology and create new transformer models - they haven’t the background and likely not the temperament for that. what kind of convergence do you see?
I don't mean neuro labs, but NeuroAI labs. Labs that are assumed to work at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, but my observation (which could be biased) is their tendency to drift toward more AI-focused research directions with only minimal doses of neuroscience.