
Recorded:
Feb 4, 2020
Uploaded:
February 5, 2020
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
CBMM Speaker(s):
Leslie P. Kaelbling
Abstract: We, as robot engineers, have to think hard about our role in the design of robots and how it interacts with learning, both in "the factory" (that is, at engineering time) and in "the wild" (that is, when the robot is delivered to a...

Recorded:
Dec 16, 2019
Uploaded:
December 20, 2019
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Publication Releases
CBMM Speaker(s):
Max Kleiman-Weiner
Speaker(s):
Jack Serrino
Co-authors Max Kleiman-Weiner and Jack Serrino discuss their latest publication where they created a new algorithm. The algorithm that the team developed, dubbed DeepRole, has three components. First, it plays against itself, iteratively, with...

Recorded:
Nov 25, 2019
Uploaded:
December 4, 2019
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Publication Releases
CBMM Speaker(s):
Jenelle Feather, Josh McDermott
First author and MIT graduate student Jenelle Feather and MIT Associate Professor Josh McDermott discuss their recent paper, part of the NIPS 2019 Proceedings, where they investigated whether the invariances learned by deep neural networks actually...

Recorded:
Oct 29, 2019
Uploaded:
November 27, 2019
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
Speaker(s):
Thomas Icard
Thomas Icard, Stanford
Abstract: How might we assess the expressive capacity of different classes of probabilistic generative models? The subject of this talk is an approach that appeals to machines of increasing strength (finite-state, recursive,...

Recorded:
Nov 5, 2019
Uploaded:
November 7, 2019
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Scientific Interviews
CBMM Speaker(s):
Kamila Jozwik
Speaker(s):
Thomas Serre
On November 5, 2019, CBMM Postdoctoral Fellow Kamila Jóźwik took the opportunity to sit down and chat briefly with Prof. Thomas Serre of Brown University.

Recorded:
Nov 5, 2019
Uploaded:
November 6, 2019
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
Speaker(s):
Thomas Serre
Thomas Serre - Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences Department, Carney Institute for Brain Science, Brown University
Abstract: Progress in deep learning has spawned great successes in many engineering applications. As a prime example,...

Recorded:
Oct 28, 2019
Uploaded:
October 29, 2019
Part of
All Captioned Videos, CBMM Special Seminars
Speaker(s):
Mikhail Belkin
Mikhail Belkin, Professor, The Ohio State University - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Statistics, Center for Cognitive Science
Abstract: "A model with zero training error is overfit to the training data and will...
Recorded:
Sep 25, 2019
Uploaded:
September 25, 2019
Part of
All Captioned Videos, CBMM Research
CBMM Speaker(s):
Joshua Tenenbaum
Joshua Tenenbaum is a cognitive scientist. He is combining computational models with behavioral experiments to shed light on human learning, reasoning, and perception, and exploring how to bring artificial intelligence closer to the capabilities of...

Recorded:
Aug 11, 2019
Uploaded:
September 20, 2019
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2019
CBMM Speaker(s):
Diego Mendoza-Halliday
Diego Mendoza-Halliday, MIT
Introduction to methods for recording, analyzing, and visualizing neural signals, focused on electrophysiology methods for acquiring signals that the brain uses to transmit information. This tutorial describes the...
Introduction to methods for recording, analyzing, and visualizing neural signals, focused on electrophysiology methods for acquiring signals that the brain uses to transmit information. This tutorial describes the...

Recorded:
Sep 16, 2019
Uploaded:
September 19, 2019
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Publication Releases
CBMM Speaker(s):
Josh McDermott
Speaker(s):
Nori Jacoby
Published in Current Biology (09/2019)
Lead author Nori Jacoby and PI Josh McDermott discuss their findings on pitch perception in western cultures as compared to an indigenous society in Bolivia with limited western music exposure to see if...
Lead author Nori Jacoby and PI Josh McDermott discuss their findings on pitch perception in western cultures as compared to an indigenous society in Bolivia with limited western music exposure to see if...