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  • Kempner Institute Retreat 2024

    may 29, 2024 Spring into science First retreat of the Kempner Institute for the study of natural and artificial intelligence at Harvard.

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  • MIT – Hebrew University joint workshop on Artificial Intelligence

    05/29/2024 Prof. Kreiman gives a lecture about connecting biological and artificial neural networks In this lecture, Prof. Kreiman introduces work done in collaboration with the Ramanathan lab combining reinforcement learning, optogenetics and behavior in the C. elegans worm to discover neural policies that drive behavior.

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  • The limits of computer vision

    05/15/2024 Harvard Medicine News Work from the Kreiman laboratory about the successes and limitations of computer vision algorithms was featured in this article by Molly McDonough.

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  • Current models of visual cortex fail to generalize

    05/01/2024 Spandan Madan gives a talk at the Center for Brain Science Neurolunch Spandan scrutinizes the ability of models of visual cortex to explain neuronal responses and finds a poor ability to extrapolate to novel stimuli, forcing us to revisit whether such models capture the critical properties of vision.

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  • Will Xiao on visual cortex activity during free viewing

    04/29/2024 Feature-selective responses in macaque visual cortex follow eye movements during natural vision How do visual cortex neurons respond during free viewing conditions? Will Xiao’s tour-de-force work answering this question was published in Nature Neuroscience.

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  •  A Clue Into How We See a Stable World Despite Moving Eyes

    04/29/2024 Harvard Medicine News and Research We move our eyes about three times per second, yet the world seems perfectly stable. Will Xiao’s tour-de-force investigations provide the most extensive computational and neurophysiological description of visual cortical responses during free viewing. See Xiao’s publication here.

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  • GPT7 and AGI

    aprl 11, 2024 How to build and understand GPT7’s mind Graduate student Trenton Bricken considers whether a future version of GPT will display artificial general intelligence (AGI). See publications from Trenton Bricken here.

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  • Congratulations to Alliyha Steele!

    03/202/204 Alliyha Steele received the Kranium fellowship This is the first year of the Kranium fellowships awarded to Harvard undergraduate students pursuing research in Artificial Intelligence awarded by the new Kempner Institute. Alliyha’s research project involves comparing the representation of language signals in large language models and the human brain.

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  • Computational control of a living brain

    03/01/2024 Harvard Magazine In this article, Jonathan Shaw describes the innovative work of graduate student Chenguang Li using state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence algorithms to exert control of a C. elegans worm’s brain. See Chenguang’s publication here.

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  • When and how CNNs generalize

    02/22/2022 When and how CNNs generalize to out-of-distribution category-viewpoint combinations Spandan Madan and Xavier Boix discuss their latest research recently published in Nature Machine Intelligence. Reach out to us now to explore your unique training requirements and uncover our potential to assist you.

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