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June 13, 2023
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Jeff Clune, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia; Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Faculty Member, Vector Institute; Senior Research Advisor, DeepMind
Want to learn more? The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities [MIT Press] Selective pressures for accurate altruism targeting: evidence from...
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Jun 6, 2023
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Matt Wilson
Matt Wilson, Professor of Neuroscience, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Want to learn more? https://teachmesomething.mit.edu/tms/do-rats-dream Reading the Minds of Rats - Matt Wilson- TEDxCoconutGrove "Memory experts show sleeping rats...
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May 23, 2023
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May 23, 2023
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R.T. Pramod
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How are we able to see (how the brain works)? Pramod RT, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Want to learn more? Check these out: Nancy’s Brain Talks (videos), jump to Section 3....
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May 19, 2023
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Taylor Baum
MIT PhD candidate Taylor Baum talks about her passion project, Sprouting, an organization which hosted a 5-day hackathon for educators and students to empower them to teach coding and computer science in their classrooms and communities with the...
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May 9, 2023
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Eero Simoncelli, Silver Professor; Professor of Neural Science, Mathematics, Data Science and Psychology, NYU
Abstract: Inference problems in machine or biological vision generally rely on knowledge of prior probabilities, such as spectral or sparsity models. In recent years, machine learning has provided dramatic improvements in most of these problems...
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May 16, 2023
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Jeff Clune, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia; Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Faculty Member, Vector Institute; Senior Research Advisor, DeepMind
https://teachmesomething.mit.edu/tms/can-computers-learn-humans Want to learn more? https://teachmesomething.mit.edu/tms/can-computers-learn-humans Watch these videos on Deep Learning: “Tutorial: Deep Learning” from our BMM Summer Course 2018 by...
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May 9, 2023
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Greta Tuckute, PhD Candidate, Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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What makes words more memorable?
Greta Tuckute, PhD Candidate, Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Want to learn more? Check out this article: “Intrinsically memorable words have...
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May 2, 2023
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Jeff Clune, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia; Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Faculty Member, Vector Institute; Senior Research Advisor, DeepMind
Abstract: Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms are those that seek to produce a diverse set of high-performing solutions to problems. I will describe them and a number of their positive attributes. I will summarize how they enable robots, after being...
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Feb 14, 2023
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Akhilan Boopathy
CBMM Research Meeting: Akhilan Boopathy, MIT graduate student in the Fiete Lab Abstract: The measure of a machine learning algorithm is the difficulty of the tasks it can perform, and sufficiently difficult tasks are critical drivers of strong...
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Apr 28, 2023
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Tutorial on FindingFive FindingFive is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting behavioral scientists’ web-based research by making it easy and cost-effective to implement experiments and collect data. With FindingFive, researchers can...

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