Tag: AI

  • AI Courses at MBL

    september 5, 2024 AI rules in two popular MBL courses Note about the Brains, Minds and Machines summer course at MBL. Note by David Chandler Read more

  • Congratulations to Narek Alvandian!

    08/27/2024 Testing the alignment of multimodal neural networks to human brain areas Congratulations to Narek Alvandian on successfully defending his Master’s thesis! Read more

  • Congratulations to BMM 2024 students!

    08/25/2024 An impressive new cadre of scholars Congratulations to all the students who participated in the Brains, Minds and Machines 2024 summer course in Woodshole, MA. Students pursued exciting projects from asking about the relationship between polynomial and non-polynomial problems to investigating adversarial attacks in AI algorithms to comparing neural networks to neurophysiological recordings. Read more

  • Kranium Poster Session 2024

    August 8, 2024 First generation of Kranium scholars present their work The Kempner Institute at Harvard sponsored the first group of undergraduate researchers through their Kranium program. Come and see their posters discussing their work. Alliyah Steele from the Kreiman lab presents her work on studying the representation of language in brains and machines. Read more

  • The next 200 milliseconds

    08/08/2024 Prof. Kreiman gives a lecture on the dynamics of cognition at the Brains, Minds and Machines This lecture introduces a discussion of the complex recurrent and top-down signals that interact with sensory processes to interpret visual scenes, including contextual reasoning, eye movements and visual search, and pattern completion. Read more

  • Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2024

    08/05/2024 Summer + AI + Neuroscience We start a new edition of the Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course in Woodshole, MA with an impressive cadre of 35 international scholars interested in the intersection of brain science, computer science, and cognitive science. Read more

  • AI agents help worms find food by integrating with their nervous systems

    06/14/2024 Harvard University MCB News This news article describes the pioneering work of Chenguang Li using reinforcement learning to discover neural policies in the C. elegans worm by integrating biological and artificial neural networks. See Chenguang’s research here. Read more

  • 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. Read more

  • 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. Read more

  • 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. Read more