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Prof. Tomaso Poggio responds to the public debate regarding the risks of AI (Artificial Intelligence). This is the first View published in the new CBMM's View+Reviews series.
Watch the video of the CBMM panel discussion "The Road to Intelligence," with Profs. Geoffrey E. Hinton, Bob Desimone, Laura Schulz, Josh Tenenbaum, Shimon Ullman, and Patrick H Winston; chaired by Prof. Tomaso Poggio, recorded on Dec. 4, 2014.
Watch Prof. Jun Zhang's Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series talk " Reflexive Theory of Mind Reasoning in Games," taped on Dec.2, 2014, in the Singleton Auditorium, MIT.
Director of NSF-funded Center for Brains, Minds and Machines recognized for his work developing computational models of the human visual system.
We review and apply a computational theory of the feedforward path of the ventral stream in visual cortex based on the hypothesis that its main function is the encoding of invariant representations of images.
A neural portrait of the human mind. (Filmed Mar 2014) Brain imaging pioneer Nancy Kanwisher, who uses fMRI scans to see activity in brain regions (often her own), shares what she and her colleagues have learned.
Searching for the “Free Will” Neuron by David Talbot, June 17, 2014, Photo credit: Leonard Greco
Watch Prof Mitchell's Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series talk "Neural Representations of Language Meaning," from September 30, 2014, Singleton Auditorium, MIT.
Watch Dr. Christof Koch's Brains, Minds, and Machines Seminar talk, "The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness", from September 23, 2014, MIT.
Lecture videos from Center for Brains, Minds & Machines Summer Course 2014 are available on the MBL website.
Watch Alan Yuille's May Brains, Minds, and Machines Seminar: Parsing Objects and Scenes in Two- and Three-Dimensions
Watch Gary Marcus' April Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar: Computational diversity and the mesoscale organization of the neocortex.
CBMM Investigator, Ed Boyden is on the NSF homepage and MIT News: Researchers at MIT and the University of Vienna have developed an imaging system to reveal neural activity of living animals.
Meetings will resume the second week of September 2014. Please note, meetings will be held on Tuesdays, rather than Fridays.
CBMM participants openly share research results through the new CBMM Memo series. (Pictured is MIT AI Memo No. 1, Sept. 1958)