Connectomic AI

Working with animal connectomes to emulate and create neurorobotic working systems has a number of issues that are surmountable but need to be considered. 1) Finding Connectomic data Data is still shy on the public domain. C elegans is the only full connectome available I am aware of. There are a number of other partial data sets and I would assume a number of data sets are in private hands. In addition, large data sets have a huge number of orphan and missing neuron and synaptic connections. How to overcome Going to conferences and making personal connections would most likely get access to the number of private data sets. In addition, having the backing of a major corporation could also assist in opening doors to private data sets. Providing funds to researchers could also create data sets specific to the data needs of emulations. I was part of a proposal that estimated roughly $30,000 USD would get us the ant connectome dataset so this would be in the neighborhood we would want to