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June 14, 2024
* 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....
June 12, 2024
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...
June 8, 2024
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...
Science|Business ranks recipients of National Science Foundation grants in AI - and finds an Italian at MIT is the biggest winner
May 14, 2024
Carnegie Mellon, UC San Diego top US grant winners for AI research
Science|Business ranks recipients of National Science Foundation grants in AI - and finds an Italian at MIT is the biggest winner
By Raffaele Guerini
The US has...
May 1, 2024
Three neurosymbolic methods help language models find better abstractions within natural language, then use those representations to execute complex tasks.
Alex Shipps | MIT CSAIL
Large language models (LLMs) are becoming...
April 19, 2024
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History and future of ChatGPT and its sisters in the book just published by the Italian scientist who became famous at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston...
April 2, 2024
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Scientific Overview
The quest to understand intelligence is one of the great scientific endeavors—on par with quests to understand the origins of life or the foundations of the physical world....
March 19, 2024
Designing machines to think like humans provides insight into intelligence itself
By George Musser
he dream of artificial intelligence has never been just to make a grandmaster-beating chess engine or a chatbot that tries to...
March 4, 2024
A study of people in 15 countries reveals that while everyone favors rhythms with simple integer ratios, biases can vary quite a bit across societies.
Anne Trafton | MIT News
When listening to music, the human brain appears to be...
robot hands holding a wooden maze with a worm crawling through it tying to get to an X
February 14, 2024
by Jonathan Shaw
Could an artificial neural network connected to the brain of a living animal improve its performance on a task, such as the ability to find food? A strength of biologically based intelligence is that it performs...

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