March 19, 2019 - 8:30 am
This meeting is invitation only.
March 16, 2019 - 12:30 pm
Dr. Farahnaz Wick, Harvard Medical School
Enjoy this special presentation in the Gordon Current Science & Technology Center, Blue Wing, Level 1
Dr. Farahnaz Wick, a cognitive scientist from the MIT Center for Brains Minds and Machines, will discuss how we pay attention to the bustling world around us. Dr. Wick is a postdoc working with...
Dr. Farahnaz Wick, a cognitive scientist from the MIT Center for Brains Minds and Machines, will discuss how we pay attention to the bustling world around us. Dr. Wick is a postdoc working with...
March 15, 2019 - 10:15 am
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 (MT) belongs, because developments in these areas may eventually impact the language services market.
Additionally, machine translation as well as language services and tech are mixing well with the broader AI and machine...
March 13, 2019 - 10:45 am
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 transforms the sensory input into coherent perceptions. Neuroscientists have long hypothesized that a part of the visual cortex called the inferotemporal (IT) cortex is necessary for the key task of recognizing individual...
March 13, 2019 - 9:30 am
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 language is increasingly finding its way into everyday life.
Boris Katz, a principal research scientist at MIT, isn’t that impressed. Over the past 40 years, Katz has made key contributions to the linguistic abilities of...
March 11, 2019 - 1:15 pm
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 Cognitive Sciences and the director of the NSF Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT. As one of the founders of computational neuroscience, he is a devote supporter of interdisciplinarity as a fundamental instrument...
![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 - 9:45 am
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. Synopsis about the series from the production website follows:
"Enlai explores how natural intelligence inspires artificial intelligence. He meets A.I. trained to think like artists, musicians, doctors & scientists,...
March 7, 2019 - 3:45 pm
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 useful they become. That means asking for feedback when they get confused and seamlessly absorbing new information as they interact with us and their environment. Ideally, this means moving to a world in which we talk to...
March 5, 2019 - 4:00 pm
MIT 46-5165
Nancy Kanwisher and Josh Tenenbaum
February 26, 2019 - 4:00 pm
Gabriel Kreiman
February 21, 2019 - 12:45 pm
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 ‘destroy the world’ - AI is now widely accepted, adopted and better understood by people outside of the technology sector. An array of accessible mainstream AI applications means it has been seamlessly integrated into many...
February 19, 2019 - 4:00 pm
Boris Katz, Andrei Barbu and Shimon Ullman
February 15, 2019 - 4:00 pm
Tomaso Poggio and Jim DiCarlo
February 15, 2019 - 12:15 pm
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 their basic architecture? Shimon Ullman, with the Weizmann Institute of Science, addresses this question in a Perspectives piece in the journal Science and suggests some ways computer scientists might reach beyond simple AI...
February 9, 2019 - 12:45 pm
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 Intelligence.”
The science-fiction series will follow a group of young scientists working at a startup who discover the first sentient artificial intelligence and envision ways in which it could be used to create a better...