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March 22, 2019
McGovern Institute researchers find that the brain starts to register gender and age before recognizing a face.
Sabbi Lall | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Our brains are incredibly good at processing faces, and even have...
Sabbi Lall | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Our brains are incredibly good at processing faces, and even have...
March 15, 2019
by Gino Diño
Natural language processing (NLP) and Generation (NLG) continue to boom, powered by rapid advances in machine learning. Slator continually monitors NLP and NLG as the umbrella category to which machine translation (...
Natural language processing (NLP) and Generation (NLG) continue to boom, powered by rapid advances in machine learning. Slator continually monitors NLP and NLG as the umbrella category to which machine translation (...
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...
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
As visual information flows into the brain through the retina, the visual cortex...
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...
by Will Knight
iri, Alexa, Google Home—technology that parses...
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]](https://cbmm.mit.edu/sites/default/files/styles/people_180x180/public/news-events/becoming%20human.jpg?itok=cd8f601q "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....
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...
Kim Martineau | MIT Quest for Intelligence
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Robots that understand language
The more that robots can engage with humans, the more...
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 ‘...
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 ‘...
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...
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...