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The goal of building machines that can perceive and act in the world as humans and other animals do has been a focus of AI research efforts for over half a century. Over this same period, neuroscience has sought to achieve a mechanistic understanding of the brain processes underlying perception and action. It stands to reason that these parallel efforts could inform one another. However recent advances in deep learning and transformers have, for the most part, not translated into new neuroscientific insights; and other than deriving loose inspiration from neuroscience, AI has mostly pursued its own course which now deviates strongly from the brain.

This research mission broadly aims to understand how children grasp new concepts from few examples, how children build upon layers of concepts to reach an understanding of the world and have the flexibility to solve an unbounded range of problems. Can we build AI that starts like a baby and learns like a child?

Join us on May 15th at 12PM to help celebrate our UROPS and learn about the work they’ve been doing this semester. Presenters include: Yicheng Huang, Ananya Kulshrestha, Kevin Chen and Yi Xie