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MIT announces leadership of its Quest for Intelligence. Faculty from across the Institute tapped to lead new initiative in human and machine intelligence. | MIT News

Prof. Antonio Torralba has been named the inaugural director of the MIT Quest for Intelligence, effective immediately. Additional Quest leadership members, of both The Core and The Bridge, were also announced.
Remembering Mrs. Margaret McDermott

On May 3, 2018, Mrs. Margaret McDermott passed away at the age of 106. There are very few who have contributed to MIT as much as Margaret and her family did...
Toil and trouble: How ‘Macbeth’ could teach computers to think [Boston Globe]

"Patrick Winston’s computer is learning about revenge, ambition, and murder. It knows that victory can make you happy. But it also knows you can’t be happy if you’re dead."
Gauging language proficiency through eye movement. | MIT News

Study tracks eye movement to determine how well people understand English as a foreign language. | MIT News Office
Brains, Minds + Machines Summer Course 2018 | MBL Woods Hole, MA

An intensive three-week course which will give a “deep end” introduction to the problem of intelligence. Course will be held from Aug. 9, 2018 through Aug. 30, 2018, at MBL, Woods Hole, MA.
Engineering Intelligence [McGovern Institute]

AI advances by industry giants like Google and Tesla, are based on engineering and computation, and little work in humans. Algorithms behind this tech come out of neuroscience research, so one of the next breakthroughs will likely come from here as well.

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The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM)
is a multi-institutional NSF Science and Technology Center
dedicated to the study of intelligence - how the brain produces intelligent
behavior and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines.

The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) is a multi-institutional NSF Science and Technology Center dedicated to the study of intelligence - how the brain produces intelligent behavior and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines.

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A Vision for Human and Machine Intelligence: Advancing the science and engineering of...

June 18, 2018

How does human intelligence work, in engineering terms? And how can we use that deep grasp of human intelligence to build wiser and more useful machines? This year MIT launched the MIT Intelligence...

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Seminars + events

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CBMM Special Seminar: Transformative Generative Models

July 2, 2018 - 4:00 pm

Singleton Auditorium (MIT 46-3002)

Prof. Lior Wolf, Tel Aviv University and Facebook AI Research

Abstract: Generative models are constantly improving, thanks to recent contributions in...

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CBMM spotlight

Hector Penagos: Memories

Hector Penagos: Memories

Associated Research Thrust(s):

Neural Circuits for Intelligence, Co-Investigators

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Highlighted publications

CBMM Memo No:

089

G. Ben-Yosef and Ullman, S., “Image interpretation above and below the object level”. 2018.

D. Harari, Tenenabum, J. B., and Ullman, S., “Discovery and usage of joint attention in images”, arXiv.org, 2018.

CBMM Memo No:

077

A. Adler and Wax, M., “Constant Modulus Algorithms via Low-Rank Approximation”. 2018.

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How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI

Many artificial intelligence researchers expect AI to outsmart humans at all tasks and jobs within decades, enabling a future where we're restricted only by the laws of physics, not the limits of our...

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