🎉 Delighted to announce our end-of-year Neuro-AI celebration in Montreal with…🥁 Dr Nancy Kanwisher (MIT) Dr György Buzsáki (NYU) Dr Yoshua Bengio (UdeM/Mila) + Fun social event! 🎶   The event is in-person only. Registration is free but mandatory: 👉 tinyurl.com/Neuro-AI

📢UNIQUE Student Symposium 2024 : Volunteer recruitment! The UNIQUE Students Committee is looking for motivated students and postdocs to help with the organization of USS24 ! 🧠 Fill out the application form before December 22nd 👉 forms.gle/sh737gbjxsUYbo…

Dissociating language and thought in large language models Feature Review by Kyle Mahowald (Kyle Mahowald), Anna Ivanova (Anna Ivanova), Idan Blank (I.A.B), Nancy Kanwisher (Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected]), Joshua Tenenbaum, & Evelina Fedorenko (Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦) doi.org/10.1016/j.tics…

Provocative correspondence in Nature today: nature.com/articles/d4158… I have to admit that I don't really understand these arguments, though...

📢UNIQUE Student Symposium 2024: Limited places! If you are interested in Neuro-AI, join us on May 8-10 @ CERVO Brain research Center (Quebec City)! Bus and hotel available - see conditions 🧠 👉Register now: eventbrite.ca/e/unique-stude… ⏳Poster submission: forms.gle/ePZuZNaLn5Tyq6…

📢USS2024: May 8-10 @ CERVO Brain research Center! ⏳Submit an abstract now: poster submission deadline is April 14! forms.gle/pF444kocXnRezs… 👉Register before April 17: eventbrite.ca/e/unique-stude… 🗓️Schedule available on our website: unique-students.github.io

An excellent thread by Anil Seth on the (im)probability of Conscious AI, Computational Functionalism and much more! (The discussions at ASSC in Tokyo next week are going to be fun!) 👇👇

MAIN 2024 / Please share! 👉 Registration + Abstract submission for Montreal #AI & #Neuroscience are open ! Join us for an in-person meeting in Montreal October 22-25th ! Register now (limited space): 👉 main2024.org 🐼 Abstract submission: 15 Oct! (Audio on)

Last 24h to register for MAIN 2024 happening in Montreal next week! 👉 main2024.org Also check-out the Educational day on Oct 25th (which requires separate registration). 🧠 🤖 🥯 🐼 #Neuroscience #AI #Montreal

Last chance to register! 👇👇

I’ve been training neural nets for 30 years. There was never a day I didn’t wish I had more compute. Finding solutions to problems just means we can now solve bigger problems and that is very exciting! I am finding the hype followed by panic this month to be rather

New paper: "Large Language Models & Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell). We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from perspective of what emergence means in complexity science. ⬇️