https://www.quantamagazine.org/deep-neural-networks-help-to-explain-living-brains-20201028/
neuroscience
Deep Neural Networks Help to Explain Living Brains
Deep neural networks, often criticized as “black boxes,” are helping neuroscientists understand the organization of living brains.
“If their CNN mimicked a visual system, they wondered, could it predict neural responses to a novel image?…. The next step in testing will be to evolve deep networks that can predict the connectivity in the olfactory system of some animal not yet studied, which can then be confirmed by neuroscientists.”