CBMM, NSF STC | The Center for Brains, Minds & Machines

CBMM10 - A Symposium on Intelligence: Brains, Minds, and Machines

Our symposium will focus on the topic of intelligence, one of the greatest problems in science and engineering and a key to our future as a society. The symposium will look at the past, in particular at the advances achieved by CBMM over the past 10 years
CBMM10 - A Symposium on Intelligence: Brains, Minds, and Machines

Research on Intelligence in the Age of AI: On which critical problems should Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and Computer Science focus now? Consider society, industry and science point of view.
CBMM10 - A Symposium on Intelligence: Brains, Minds, and Machines

Language and Thought: Is natural language the language of thought? LLMs as models of human language and thought. Are LLMs aligned with neuroscience and with human behavior? What is still missing?
CBMM10 - A Symposium on Intelligence: Brains, Minds, and Machines

Neuroscience to AI and back again: Review of progress and success stories in understanding perception in primates and replicating it in machines. Key open questions. Synergies. CNNs vs transformers as models of cortex.
CBMM10 - A Symposium on Intelligence: Brains, Minds, and Machines

Interacting with the physical world: Which aspects of human intelligence require embodiment? Motor control: was it the key for development of human intelligence? Is embodiment necessary for consciousness?
Brains, Minds + Machines Summer Course | MBL Woods Hole, MA

An intensive three-week course which gives a “deep end” introduction to the problem of intelligence.

past banners »

Videos | Support Us

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.

Summer course students working / Marine Biology Lab, Woodshole, MA

Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer Course

A CBMM flagship program, the Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer Course is an immersive 3-week course that provides a broad introduction to research on human & machine intelligence, combining three core disciplines — computation, neuroscience, and cognition — where students learn about common empirical & theoretical methods used in the field, and compelling results of this research, with an emphasis on the scientific mission of the Center.read more »

Prof. Nancy Kanwisher lecturing to a room full of students

The Science of Intelligence Learning Hub

Explore the science of intelligence through lectures, tutorials, and courses offered by the CBMM community, and experiment with modeling and data analysis tools used in neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI, to study intelligence in brains and machines!read more »

Featured news

Multi-AI collaboration helps reasoning and factual accuracy in large language models [MIT...

September 18, 2023

Researchers use multiple AI models to collaborate, debate, and improve their reasoning abilities to advance the performance of LLMs while increasing accountability and factual accuracy. Rachel Gordon...

see more news »

Seminars + events

CBMM10 - A Symposium on Intelligence: Brains, Minds, and Machines

October 6, 2023 - 3:15 pm

MIT Campus

The dream of understanding the mind and the brain and replicating human intelligence in machines...

see more events »

CBMM spotlight

Gemma Roig: Object Recognition

Gemma Roig: Object Recognition

Associated Research Thrust(s):

Theoretical Frameworks for Intelligence

see more spotlights »

Highlighted publications

CBMM Memo No:

143

Y. Gan and Poggio, T. A., “A Homogeneous Transformer Architecture”. 2023.

Y. Han, Poggio, T. A., and Cheung, B., “System Identification of Neural Systems: If We Got It Right, Would We Know?”, Proceedings of the 40th Interna...

E. J. Bigelow, McCoy, J. P., and Ullman, T. D., “Non-commitment in mental imagery”, Cognition, vol. 238, p. 105498, 2023.

see more Publications »

Featured video

Embedded thumbnail for CBMM10 - Charles Isbell

CBMM10 - Charles Isbell

see more videos »

Facebook Feed