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MIT researchers have found that the part of the visual cortex known as the inferotemporal (IT) cortex is required to distinguish between different objects. Image: Chelsea Turner, MIT
How the brain distinguishes between objects [MIT News]
March 13, 2019
Study shows that a brain region called the inferotemporal cortex is key to differentiating bears from chairs.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
As visual information flows into the brain through the retina, the visual cortex...
Boris Katz
The man who helped invent virtual assistants thinks they’re doomed without a new AI approach [Technology Review]
March 13, 2019
Boris Katz has spent his career trying to help machines master language. He believes that current AI techniques aren’t enough to make Siri or Alexa truly smart.
by Will Knight
iri, Alexa, Google Home—technology that parses...
Prof. Tomaso Poggio speaking in Prague
The golden age of AI: a discussion with Tomaso Poggio on applications, theories and new machine learning algorithms [Konica Minolta]
March 11, 2019
At the end of the 2019 edition of the Machine Learning Conference of Prague, we spent some time together with one of the event’s speaker, Tomaso Poggio, who is the Eugene McDermott professor in MIT’s Department of Brain and...
Becoming Human: Unnatural Genius [Channel News Asia]
Becoming Human: Unnatural Genius [Channel News Asia]
March 11, 2019
A new video series episode exploring Artificial Intelligence features three CBMM researchers - Tomaso Poggio, Elizabeth Spelke, and Max Tegmark - starting around 38:48. The whole episode is worth watching if you have the time....
Top row: (l-r) Maxwell Sherman, Lily Weng, Yen-Ling Kuo, Guillermo Bernal. Second row: (l-r) Marie Charpignon, Mohamed Ismail, Subby Olubeko, Manon Revel.
Combining artificial intelligence with their passions [MIT News]
March 7, 2019
Research projects show creative ways MIT students are connecting computing to other fields.
Kim Martineau | MIT Quest for Intelligence
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Robots that understand language
The more that robots can engage with humans, the more...
1s and 0s with a silouette of a head full of numerals
How will studying cognitive development shape the next big innovation in AI? [IT Pro Portal]
February 21, 2019
By Tom Strange
We are far from AI-based systems that can reason the way humans do.
Once associated with negative connotations - such as unemployment due to job automation and industry redundancy, or sci-fi movie plot-lines to ‘...
black and white photo of chess pieces on a board
How learning more about neuroscience might influence development of improved AI systems [Tech Xplore]
February 15, 2019
Deep-learning neural networks have come a long way in the past several years—we now have systems that are capable of beating people at complex games such as shogi, Go and chess. But is the progress of such systems limited by...
cover of book inside of filmstrip
SF Studios Preps English-Language Sci-Fi Series on Artificial Intelligence [Variety]
February 9, 2019
SF Studios, the Scandinavian company celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, is developing an English-language series based on Max Tegmark’s 2017 New York Times bestseller “Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial...
Image of a laptop displaying an article that has been stamped "Fake"
Peering under the hood of fake-news detectors [MIT News]
February 6, 2019
Study uncovers language patterns that AI models link to factual and false articles; underscores need for further testing.
Rob Matheson | MIT News Office
 
New work from MIT researchers peers under the hood of an automated fake-...
Professor Antonio Torralba, MIT director of the MIT—IBM Watson AI Lab and the inaugural director of the MIT Quest for Intelligence, addresses the audience at the MIT AI Policy Congress on Jan. 15.
AI, the law, and our future [MIT News]
January 23, 2019
MIT “Policy Congress” examines the complex terrain of artificial intelligence regulation.
by Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office
Scientists and policymakers converged at MIT on Tuesday to discuss one of the hardest problems in...

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