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May 16, 2023
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May 16, 2023
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Jeff Clune, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia; Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Faculty Member, Vector Institute; Senior Research Advisor, DeepMind
https://teachmesomething.mit.edu/tms/can-computers-learn-humans Want to learn more? https://teachmesomething.mit.edu/tms/can-computers-learn-humans Watch these videos on Deep Learning: “Tutorial: Deep Learning” from our BMM Summer Course 2018 by...
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May 9, 2023
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May 9, 2023
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Greta Tuckute, PhD Candidate, Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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What makes words more memorable?
Greta Tuckute, PhD Candidate, Cognitive Neuroscience, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Want to learn more? Check out this article: “Intrinsically memorable words have...
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May 2, 2023
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
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Jeff Clune, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of British Columbia; Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Faculty Member, Vector Institute; Senior Research Advisor, DeepMind
Abstract: Quality Diversity (QD) algorithms are those that seek to produce a diverse set of high-performing solutions to problems. I will describe them and a number of their positive attributes. I will summarize how they enable robots, after being...
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Feb 14, 2023
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Akhilan Boopathy
CBMM Research Meeting: Akhilan Boopathy, MIT graduate student in the Fiete Lab Abstract: The measure of a machine learning algorithm is the difficulty of the tasks it can perform, and sufficiently difficult tasks are critical drivers of strong...
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Apr 28, 2023
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Ting Qian, Noah Nelson
Tutorial on FindingFive FindingFive is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting behavioral scientists’ web-based research by making it easy and cost-effective to implement experiments and collect data. With FindingFive, researchers can...
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May 2, 2023
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R.T. Pramod
#MITTeachMeSomethingTuesday Pramod RT, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Want to learn more? Check out this article and paper: "Are There Really as Many Neurons in the Human Brain as Stars in the Milky Way?" from...
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Apr 25, 2023
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Leila Wehbe, Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract: Aligning neural network representations with brain activity measurements is a promising approach for studying the brain. However, it is not always clear what the ability to predict brain activity from neural network representations entails...
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Apr 25, 2023
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Matt Wilson
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Can our brain hear when we're asleep? Matt Wilson, Professor of Neuroscience, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences #MIT
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Apr 18, 2023
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April 25, 2023
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Maya Taliaferro
#MITTeachMeSomethingTuesday Maya Taliaferro, Research Scholar, MIT Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Want to learn more? Check out these articles: "Brains on conlangs" by Jennifer Michalowski | December 12, 2022 [MIT McGovern Institute for...
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Apr 4, 2023
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April 18, 2023
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Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
CBMM Speaker(s):
Tomaso Poggio, Joshua Tenenbaum, Martin Schrimpf
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Phillip Isola, Ev Federenko, Sydney Levine
Panelists: Ev Fedorenko, Sydney Levine, Josh Tenenbaum, Phillip Isola, Martin Schrimpf;
Moderator: Tommy Poggio Abstract: Transformer models have been rapidly gaining popularity as they underlie some of the most advanced deep learning systems...

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