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Apr 2, 2024
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April 22, 2024
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
Speaker(s):
Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Institute
Abstract: I will survey a current, heated debate in the AI research community on whether large pre-trained language models can be said to "understand" language—and the physical and social situations language encodes—in any important sense. I will...
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Apr 22, 2024
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March 26, 2024
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
CBMM Speaker(s):
Giorgo Metta
Abstract: The iCub is a humanoid robot designed to support research in embodied AI. At 104 cm tall, the iCub has the size of a five-year-old child. It can crawl on all fours, walk, and sit up to manipulate objects. Its hands have been designed to...
Embedded thumbnail for Bayes in the age of intelligent machines
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Mar 12, 2024
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March 19, 2024
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
Speaker(s):
Tom Griffiths, Princeton University
Abstract: Recent rapid progress in the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has been driven in large part by innovations in architectures and algorithms for developing large scale artificial neural networks. As a consequence, it’s...
Embedded thumbnail for How fly neurons compute the direction of visual motion
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Feb 14, 2024
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February 26, 2024
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
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Alexander Borst, Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried, Germany
Abstract: Detecting the direction of image motion is important for visual navigation, predator avoidance and prey capture, and thus essential for the survival of all animals that have eyes. However, the direction of motion is not explicitly...
Embedded thumbnail for  fMRI Scanning at MIT: For Infants
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Feb 26, 2024
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February 26, 2024
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CBMM Research
What to expect when your child is participating in an fMRI study at MIT.
Embedded thumbnail for An overview of Generative AI: music, video and image creation
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Aug 12, 2023
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February 6, 2024
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2023
Speaker(s):
Douglas Eck, Google DeepMind
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Aug 12, 2023
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February 5, 2024
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2023
Speaker(s):
Dmitry Krotov, MIT / IBM Research
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Aug 12, 2023
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February 2, 2024
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2023
Speaker(s):
Santosh Vempala, Georgia Tech
Embedded thumbnail for Navigating Progress in AI and Neuroscience
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Aug 12, 2023
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February 2, 2024
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2023
CBMM Speaker(s):
Brian Cheung
Embedded thumbnail for  2024 Talking Science featuring Winrich Freiwald, Ph.D.
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Jan 29, 2024
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January 26, 2024
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CBMM Speaker(s):
Winrich Freiwald
The Doppelgänger in Your Head. As social human beings, we usually identify other people by recognizing their faces, and we sense the thoughts and emotions of others by reading facial expressions. Faces are so important that our brains have evolved...

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