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🎡🦆New Basis paper by Rafal Urbaniak, Marjorie Xie and me! Linking cognitive strategy, neural mechanism, and movement statistics in group foraging behaviors nature.com/articles/s4159… "Behind the paper" blog here: go.nature.com/3YBaVDK Code: github.com/BasisResearch/… 🦆🎡

📢🎡🐦‍⬛I'm looking to hire postdocs to join me on the Collaborative Intelligent Systems project at Basis, more info here: basis.ai/roles/postdoc-…, please apply 🐦‍⬛🎡📢

New whitepaper with contributions from Basis scientists and collaborators

Thank you, François, Mike, & team, for the ARC challenge. It has been a durable source of inspiration, and brings fresh ideas to AI. The paper award first authors are Keya Hu (applying to PhDs Keya Hu) and Wen-Ding Li (at NeurIPS hunting for industry gigs Wen-Ding Li @ ICLR'25).

At NeurIPS? Interested in software tools for causal machine learning and doubly robust estimation? Come to our spotlight poster on Friday in the West Ballroom at 4:30 - #5001: Automated Efficient Estimation using Monte Carlo Efficient Influence Functions

Chollet François Chollet : [paraphrase] "using NNs for discrete problems i.e. finding new prime numbers - is a terrible idea" with Kevin Ellis Zenna Tavares

Clip of François Chollet reflecting on the ARC Prize challenge with Zenna Tavares and Kevin Ellis at #neurips2024

How can animal behavior shape our understanding of AI? Emily Mackevicius (Emily Mackevicius) of Basis explains in episode 28 of #Generationship. Listen now: hubs.ly/Q033d9vS0

With ARIA, we’ve started a moonshot to automate robotics. We're building reasoning systems that design robots—hardware and controllers together—that are more dextrous and specialised to their environments. This is like the most sci-fi thing one could work on.

I have never had the time to write about them on FreakTakes, but Basis is a BBN-shaped organization I’m very excited about! Anyone interested in pursuing cutting-edge AI problems in a team laser-focused on a technical vision a bit outside the mainstream in SV should apply

With Basis co-founder Zenna Tavares and collaborator/advisor Kevin Ellis

In a recent discussion, Prof. Kevin Ellis and Dr. Zenna Tavares of Basis explored pathways toward artificial intelligence capable of more human-like learning, focusing on acquiring abstract knowledge from limited experience through active interaction. 🧵👇

Enjoyed talking with Kevin Ellis about model discovery, program synthesis, Project MARA, and Basis . I only just realised the full video was on YouTube already 😅. Please check it out (link below) and share it with anyone you think might be interested (we're hiring!)

We’re making the Basis organisation document public today. It’s less a charter and more a design doc—our spec for why a new kind of technology and research organisation is needed, and how to build it. (link below)