February 1, 2023 - 2:45 pm
ChatGPT is in the spotlight, but it’s Whisper—OpenAI’s open-source speech-transcription program—that shows us where machine learning is going.
By James Somers
One day in late December, I downloaded a program called Whisper.cpp onto my laptop, hoping to use it to transcribe an interview I’d done. I fed it an audio file and, every few seconds, it produced one or two lines of eerily accurate transcript, writing down exactly what had been said with...
January 30, 2023 - 10:45 am
Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur conducted NAiBS-2023 international conference from 26th to 28th January 2023. The conference aimed at bringing together researchers across domains for discussions on the common goal of designing AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) systems – drawing inspiration from individual sensorimotor computations leading to multimodal processes in the human brain. The conference also envisioned being of interest to a...
January 12, 2023 - 4:30 pm
Demis Hassabis stands halfway up a spiral staircase, surveying the cathedral he built. Behind him, light glints off the rungs of a golden helix rising up through the staircase’s airy well. The DNA sculpture, spanning three floors, is the centerpiece of DeepMind’s recently opened London headquarters. It’s an artistic representation of the code embedded in the nucleus of nearly every cell in the human body. “Although we work on making machines...
December 6, 2022 - 4:00 pm
McGovern Seminar Room (46-3189)
Diego Mendoza-Halliday, Research Scientist, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
In person and open to the MIT Community.
Abstract:
Visual attention and working memory are two different cognitive functions. However, because of their close relationship and interactions, it is often claimed that they share the same underlying neuronal mechanisms. Here, I will first describe...
Abstract:
Visual attention and working memory are two different cognitive functions. However, because of their close relationship and interactions, it is often claimed that they share the same underlying neuronal mechanisms. Here, I will first describe...
November 22, 2022 - 4:00 pm
Virtual
Margaret Livingstone, Harvard Medical School
Margaret Livingstone is the Takeda Professor of Neurobiology in the Blavatnik Institute of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Livingstone has long been interested in how tuning properties of individual neurons can be clustered at a gross level in the brain. The lab began by looking at the...
November 17, 2022 - 12:30 pm
Society for Neuroscience honors BCS professor for breakthrough research modeling a component of the brain’s navigational system.
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) has awarded the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience to Ila Fiete, professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, associate member of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and director of the K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience...
November 8, 2022 - 4:00 pm
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
Prof. Winrich Freiwald, The Rockefeller University
Current understanding of the neural mechanisms of face processing, and the computational principles they employ, is based, primarily, on studies of a set of fMRI-identified face areas inside macaque inferotemporal cortex. These face areas contain very high fractions of face cells, occur at...
November 4, 2022 - 8:30 am
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
James DiCarlo, Tomaso Poggio, Joshua Tenenbaum, Nancy Kanwisher, Leslie Kaelbling, Ila Fiete, Evelina...
[recordings - on the right - are in reverse chronological order]
MIT's Quest for Intelligence aims to understand intelligence by tightly coupling scientific enquiry and rigorous engineering to address real-world problems that are beyond current machine capabilities but within the ability of natural...
MIT's Quest for Intelligence aims to understand intelligence by tightly coupling scientific enquiry and rigorous engineering to address real-world problems that are beyond current machine capabilities but within the ability of natural...
November 1, 2022 - 12:45 pm
This machine-learning system can simulate how a listener would hear a sound from any point in a room.
Adam Zewe | MIT News Office
Imagine the booming chords from a pipe organ echoing through the cavernous sanctuary of a massive, stone cathedral.
The sound a cathedral-goer will hear is affected by many factors, including the location of the organ, where the listener is standing, whether any columns, pews, or other obstacles stand between them,...
October 18, 2022 - 4:15 pm
PhD candidate Raúl Mojica Soto-Albors seeks to understand the rules of plasticity that underlie neuronal behavior.
Olivia Young | Office of Graduate Education
When he matriculated in 2019 as a graduate student, Raúl Mojica Soto-Albors was no stranger to MIT. He’d spent time here on multiple occasions as an undergraduate at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, including eight months in 2018 as a displaced student after Hurricane Maria in...
October 18, 2022 - 4:00 pm
Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)
Prof. George Konidaris, Brown University
Abstract: AI is, at once, an immensely successful field---generating remarkable ongoing innovation that powers whole industries---and a complete failure. Despite more than 50 years of study, the field has never settled on a widely accepted, or even well-formulated, definition of its...
October 11, 2022 - 4:00 pm
MIBR Reading Room 45-5165
Phillip Isola and Brian Cheung.
This is meant to be an informal discussion in which Phillip and Brian will give an overview of transformer networks and then we will open the floor for questions and discussion. It is likely that we will have another meeting at a later time discussing what transformers may contribute to...
September 25, 2022 - 9:45 am
Neuroscience PhD student Fernanda De La Torre uses complex algorithms to investigate philosophical questions about perception and reality.
Leah Campbell | School of Science
Although Fernanda De La Torre still has several years left in her graduate studies, she’s already dreaming big when it comes to what the future has in store for her.
“I dream of opening up a school one day where I could bring this world of understanding of cognition and...
September 19, 2022 - 4:45 pm
Dear General Vision Sciences & Engineering communities,
The goal of the Fourth Workshop on Shared Visual Representations in Human and Machine Intelligence (SVRHM) at NeurIPS 2022 is to discuss and disseminate relevant findings and parallels between the computational neuro/cognitive science and machine learning/artificial intelligence communities.
In the past few years, machine learning tools — especially deep neural networks — have...
September 13, 2022 - 4:00 pm
McGovern Reading Room (fallback Singleton Auditorium 46-3002)
Profs. Jim DiCarlo (Director, MIT Quest) and Tomaso Poggio (Director, CBMM)
Topic: New Home: CBMM is now part of the MIT Quest for Intelligence Initiative
We will have a combined CBMM | Quest research meeting to discuss CBMM’s recent move to the MIT Quest for Intelligence Initiative (MIT Quest.) A reception will be held immediately following the meeting. Hope you will be...
We will have a combined CBMM | Quest research meeting to discuss CBMM’s recent move to the MIT Quest for Intelligence Initiative (MIT Quest.) A reception will be held immediately following the meeting. Hope you will be...