May 14, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Room 45-792
This research mission broadly aims to understand how children grasp new concepts from few examples, how children build upon layers of concepts to reach an understanding of the world and have the flexibility to solve an unbounded range of problems. Can we build AI that starts like a baby and learns...
May 7, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Bio: Professor Bruno Olshausen is a Professor in the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, the School of Optometry, and has a below-the-line affiliated appointment in EECS. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems...
April 18, 2024 - 12:00 pm
Online Webinar
Amnon Shashua, Sachs Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Founder & CEO,...
*Event time is 12:00pm EDT / 5:00pm CET*
Join us on a journey through the history of artificial intelligence (AI) from its early conceptual foundations to today’s Gen AI breakthroughs and tomorrow’s potential futures with:
Amnon Shashua, Sachs Professor of Computer Science at the Hebrew University...
April 9, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Room 45-792
This research mission broadly addresses how we perceive the world around us and integrate this information to plan and complete tasks. Scientific goals include research into how perception, planning, and action interface, how we learn efficiently from small data sets and the creation of behavioral...
April 2, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Institute
Abstract: I will survey a current, heated debate in the AI research community on whether large pre-trained language models can be said to "understand" language—and the physical and social situations language encodes—in any important sense. I will describe arguments that have been made for and...
March 26, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
Giorgio Metta (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT))
Abstract: The iCub is a humanoid robot designed to support research in embodied AI. At 104 cm tall, the iCub has the size of a five-year-old child. It can crawl on all fours, walk, and sit up to manipulate objects. Its hands have been designed to support sophisticate manipulation skills. The iCub...
March 19, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Room 45-792
The Language Mission broadly aims to understand the relationship between language and human intelligence. Scientific goals include understanding how humans and machine learning models interpret and generate language and determining the role of language in the acquisition, representation, and use of...
March 12, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
Tom Griffiths (Princeton University)
Abstract: Recent rapid progress in the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has been driven in large part by innovations in architectures and algorithms for developing large scale artificial neural networks. As a consequence, it’s natural to ask what role abstract principles of...
March 4, 2024 - 1:15 pm
A study of people in 15 countries reveals that while everyone favors rhythms with simple integer ratios, biases can vary quite a bit across societies. Anne Trafton | MIT News When listening to music, the human brain appears to be biased toward hearing and producing rhythms composed of simple integer ratios — for example, a series of four beats separated by equal time intervals (forming a 1:1:1 ratio). However, the favored ratios can vary greatly...
February 27, 2024 - 3:00 pm
McGovern Reading Room (46-5165)
Arash Afraz Ph.D., Chief of unit on neurons, circuits and behavior, laboratory of neuropsychology, NIMH, NIH
Abstract: Local perturbation of neural activity in high-level visual cortical areas alters visual perception. Quantitative characterization of these perceptual alterations holds the key to understanding the mapping between patterns of neuronal activity and elements of perception. The complexity and...
robot hands holding a wooden maze with a worm crawling through it tying to get to an X
February 14, 2024 - 3:30 pm
by Jonathan Shaw Could an artificial neural network connected to the brain of a living animal improve its performance on a task, such as the ability to find food? A strength of biologically based intelligence is that it performs well in novel situations by applying principles learned through experience in other contexts. Artificial intelligence (AI), on the other hand, can rapidly process huge quantities of information and thus detect...
a fly on a tree link sructure
February 14, 2024 - 2:00 pm
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
Alexander Borst, Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried, Germany
*Due to the forecast weather event for Cambridge, MA on Tuesday February 13th, this talk will be held on Wednesday February 14th at 2:00PM*
Abstract: Detecting the direction of image motion is important for visual navigation, predator avoidance and prey capture, and thus essential for the survival...
February 6, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
Yael Niv (Princeton University)
Abstract: No two events are alike. But still, we learn, which means that we implicitly decide what events are similar enough that experience with one can inform us about what to do in another. Starting from early work by Sam Gershman, we have suggested that this relies on parsing of incoming...
student group photo standing on the main steps of MIT
January 30, 2024 - 1:45 pm
More than 80 students and faculty from a dozen collaborating institutions became immersed at the intersection of computation and life sciences and forged new ties to MIT and each other. David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory Starting on New Year’s Day, when many people were still clinging to holiday revelry, scores of students and faculty members from about a dozen partner universities instead flipped open their laptops...
January 29, 2024 - 10:15 am
Joel Oppenheim was a wise and generous man. We were fortunate to work with him when he joined the CBMM External Advisory Committee (EAC) at its inception in 2014, and got to know him well because he served as an advisor for our diversity and outreach programs. Joel was dedicated to helping others. Though he was already a senior figure in the field and not always in good health, he attended every EAC meeting, always giving helpful feedback and...

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