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CBMM's Kanwisher and Freiwald named Kavli Prize Laureates in Neuroscience

"for the discovery of a highly localized and specialized system for representation of faces in human and non-human primate neocortex."
Natural language boosts LLM performance in coding, planning, and robotics [MIT News]

Three neurosymbolic methods help language models find better abstractions within natural language, then use those representations to execute complex tasks.
Artificial intelligence. Thus speaks (and spoke) the pioneer Tomaso Poggio [La Stampa]

History and future of ChatGPT and its sisters in the book just published by the Italian scientist who became famous at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. «The genie is out of the bottle, but humans are more dangerous than robots»
Building Intelligent Machines Helps Us Learn How Our Brain Works [Scientific American]

Designing machines to think like humans provides insight into intelligence itself
Exposure to different kinds of music influences how the brain interprets rhythm [MIT News]

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.
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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.

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Featured news

Study assesses seizure risk from stimulating thalamus [Picower Institute]

August 21, 2024

In awake mice, researchers found that even low stimulation currents could sometimes still cause electrographic seizures The idea of electrically stimulating a brain region called the central thalamus...

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Seminars + events

Quest | CBMM Seminar Series - Conveying Tasks to Computers: How Machine Learning...

September 10, 2024 - 4:00 pm

Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)

Michael Littman, Brown University

Abstract: It is immensely empowering to delegate information processing work to machines and have...

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CBMM spotlight

Georgios Evangelopoulos: Speech Recognition

Georgios Evangelopoulos: Speech Recognition

Associated Research Thrust(s):

Theoretical Frameworks for Intelligence

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Highlighted publications

CBMM Memo No:

148

Y. Gan and Poggio, T., “For HyperBFs AGOP is a greedy approximation to gradient descent”. 2024.

T. Poggio and Fraser, M., “Compositional sparsity of learnable functions”, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 61, pp. 438-456, 2024.

T. Galanti, Xu, M., Galanti, L., and Poggio, T., “Norm-based Generalization Bounds for Sparse Neural Networks”, in NeurIPS 2023, New Orleans, 2023.

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