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The AI Residency Program at X, The Moonshot Factory

Alphabet (formerly Google) X announces residency program that is geared towards those who want to apply their AI abilities in experimental yet highly practical ways to make meaningful progress against seemingly intractable problems.
Fujitsu Laboratories and MIT’s Center for Brains, Minds and Machines Broaden Partnership [MIT News]

New investment supports intelligence research, student fellowships: Fujitsu and CBMM announced a multi-year philanthropic partnership focused on advancing the science and engineering of intelligence while supporting the next generation of researchers.
Model helps robots navigate more like humans do [MIT News]

In simulations, robots move through new environments by exploring, observing, and drawing from learned experiences: Humans can usually navigate spaces safely without thinking too much. Robots, on the other hand, struggle with such navigational concepts.
The Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course is now available on the MIT Open Course Ware website!

This course explores the problem of intelligence-its nature, how it is produced by the brain and how it could be replicated in machines—using an approach that integrates cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, and artificial intelligence.
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.
Smarter AIs could help us understand how our brains interpret the world [Science]

While artificial intelligence has been busy besting humans at Go and spawning eerily personable Alexas, some neuroscientists have a different hope: that the types of algorithms driving those technologies can also yield some insight into the human brain.

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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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DeepMind claims early progress in AI-based predictive protein modelling [TechCrunch]

December 3, 2018

by Natasha Lomas Google-owned AI specialist, DeepMind, has claimed a “significant milestone” in being able to demonstrate the usefulness of artificial intelligence to help with the complex task of...

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Research Meeting: Oge Marques

March 8, 2019 - 4:00 pm

MIT 46-5165

Oge Marques

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CBMM spotlight

James Traer: Reverberation

James Traer: Reverberation

Associated Research Thrust(s):

Exploring Future Directions

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Highlighted publications

CBMM Memo No:

096

M. Zhang, Feng, J., Lim, J. Hwee, Zhao, Q., and Gabriel, K., “What am I searching for?”. 2018.

CBMM Memo No:

094

G. Ben-Yosef, Kreiman, G., and Ullman, S., “Spatiotemporal interpretation features in the recognition of dynamic images”. 2018.

CBMM Memo No:

093

L. Arend, Han, Y., Schrimpf, M., Bashivan, P., Kar, K., Poggio, T., DiCarlo, J. J., and Boix, X., “Single units in a deep neural network functionally...

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A Conversation with Prof. Ari Rosenberg

On November 30, 2018, Postdoc Frederico Azevedo took the opportunity to sit down and chat briefly with Prof. Ari Rosenberg of the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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