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Artificial intelligence seems to have gotten a lot smarter recently. But with the debut of powerful new chatbots like ChatGPT, millions of people have begun interacting with AI tools that seem convincingly human-like.
The second major Sprouting event sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and the MIT Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines. This Hackathon will be a program given to spark interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) in Puerto Rico.
An intensive three-week course will give advanced students a “deep end” introduction to the problem of intelligence – how the brain produces intelligent behavior and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines.
By unlocking the secrets of anesthesia, Professor Emery Brown could help shed light on brain diseases, hibernation, and possibly even human consciousness.
“The project is showing that you can actually study this stuff in the wild. The conditions here were as realistic as you can get considering these were people that were just living their lives,” study co-author Josh McDermott, tells PopSci.
Flying in the face of recent rival studies, these scientists point to generalization as key to order-of-magnitude performance gains
With Alphafold, Deepmind revolutionized chemistry. The company is now working on competing with Chat-GPT, says the founder in an interview.
“Although we work on making machines smart, we wanted to keep humanity at the center of what we’re doing here,” Hassabis, DeepMind’s CEO and co-founder, tells TIME.
Faces are an important and unique class of visual stimuli, and have been of interest to neuroscientists for many years. Faces are known to elicit certain characteristic behavioral markers, collectively labeled “holistic processing”, while non-face obj...
SfN has awarded the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience to Prof. Ila Fiete. Fiete received the prize for her breakthrough research modeling hippocampal grid cells, a component of the navigational system of the mammalian brain.
Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced the launch of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, to “spearhead advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics.”
Neuroscience PhD student Fernanda De La Torre uses complex algorithms to investigate philosophical questions about perception and reality.
The 4th Workshop on Shared Visual Representations in Human and Machine Intelligence at NeurIPS 2022 will discuss and share relevant findings and parallels between the comp. neuro/cognitive science and machine learning/artificial intelligence communities.
"According to Dr. Rebecca Saxe, hate shares characteristics with other negative emotions, such as anger, contempt, and disgust. It differs from them in that it focuses on the innate nature, motives, and characteristics of the target."
Tomaso Poggio and team awarded the 2021 Helmholtz Prize for their paper HMDB: A large video database for human motion recognition (H. Kuehne; H. Jhuang; E. Garrote; T. Poggio; T. Serre). The paper has been cited over 1400 times with 6 patent citations.