December 3, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
Kelsey Allen, Deep Mind
October 29, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Room 45-792
Eran Malach, Harvard University
October 1, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
Noah Goodman, Stanford University
September 17, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Room 45-792
Lorenzo Rosasco, Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), Università degli Studi di Genova
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 them carry out difficult tasks on our behalf. But programming computers is hard. The traditional approach to this problem is to try to fix people: They should work harder to learn to code. In this talk...
September 9, 2024 - 11:45 am
Making data (and code) useful for yourself automatically makes it useful for others.
By Samuel Gershman
This series of scientist-written essays explores the benefits and challenges of data-sharing and open-source technologies in neuroscience.
The field of neuroscience has witnessed a sea change in its attitude toward open science over the past 10 years. Thanks to mandates from journals and funders, the establishment of large-scale public...
September 6, 2024 - 1:00 pm
In animal models, even low stimulation currents can sometimes still cause electrographic seizures, researchers found.
David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
The idea of electrically stimulating a brain region called the central thalamus has gained traction among researchers and clinicians because it can help arouse subjects from unconscious states induced by traumatic brain injury or anesthesia, and can boost cognition...
September 5, 2024 - 11:30 am
Everybody is talking about some form of artificial intelligence, or AI, these days. But at MBL, two courses have been taking students into real-world, scientific uses of AI for years. Both courses have changed as the explosive growth in the AI field has made ever-more sophisticated tools available – and researchers are racing to add them to their own toolbox.
One course, called “Brains, Minds and Machines,” explores how new work in AI can...
September 3, 2024 - 12:00 pm
Eight researchers today received the Kavli Prize from King Harald.
by Njord V. Svendsen
[translated by Google]
Eight winners of the Kavliprisen 2024 received honor and glory during the ceremony which took place in Oslo Konserthus on Tuesday.
The Kavli Prize is awarded to researchers in astrophysics, neuroscience and nanoscience. The prize money is three million dollars.
Among the recipients are MIT's Nancy Kanwisher, The Rockefeller University'...
September 3, 2024 - 12:00 pm
We are excited to present The Concordia Contest at NeurIPS 2024. This contest challenges participants to advance the cooperative intelligence of language model (LM) agents in rich, text-based environments, based on the recently released Concordia framework which uses language models to create open-ended worlds similar to tabletop role-playing games. The goal of participants in the Concordia contest is to design computational agent architectures...
August 21, 2024 - 1:15 pm
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 has gained traction among researchers and clinicians because it can help arouse subjects from unconscious states induced by traumatic brain injury or anesthesia, and can boost cognition and performance in awake animals. But the method, called CT-DBS...
June 14, 2024 - 11:00 am
* This article is about recent work at the Kreiman lab outside of his CBMM projects.
There is a class of AI called reinforcement learning (RL), which works by taking actions in an environment and then learning from the outcome. RL agents have become extraordinarily powerful in recent years, beating human experts in chess and Go, learning to play video games, or learning to control robotic systems. In every case, RL has achieved these feats by...
June 12, 2024 - 10:00 am
Citation from the Committee
Recognizing faces is important for social interaction in many animals. Previous work in human psychology, clinical studies of brain-injured patients, positron emission tomography studies, and isolated face-selective neurons in non-human primates, had suggested the existence of a functionally specialized system for face recognition. However, face recognition had not been localized to any specific area of the brain. The...
June 8, 2024 - 3:00 pm
John Werner - Contributor
I am an MIT Senior Fellow, 5x-founder & VC investing in AI
Today I heard from MIT research scientist Andrei Barbu about working with LLMs, and how to prevent certain kinds of problems related to data leaks.
“We’re interested in studying language in particular,” he said of his work, turning to some of the goals of research teams in this area.
Thinking about the duality of human and computer cognition, he pointed out...
May 14, 2024 - 4:00 pm
Room 45-792
This research mission broadly aims to understand how children grasp new concepts from few examples, how children build upon layers of concepts to reach an understanding of the world and have the flexibility to solve an unbounded range of problems. Can we build AI that starts like a baby and learns...