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Check out our latest preprint: high-throughput automated training and trial-by-trial behavioral analysis during learning

Frustrated that your mouse isn’t learning fast enough? Maybe give it something interesting to do and then get out of its way. New paper with Matt Rosenberg Matthew Rosenberg, Tony Zhang Tony Zhang, and Pietro Perona Pietro Perona. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/3

It’s absurd what neuroscientists call mazes. The T maze, the Y maze and the + maze; these aren’t mazes, they’re intersections.

New preprint on a theory for navigation in complex environments. With Tony Zhang Tony Zhang, Matt Rosenberg Matthew Rosenberg, and Pietro Perona Pietro Perona. biorxiv.org/content/10.110….

5/ The whole algorithm can be implemented with a biologically realistic neural circuit, using only local synaptic learning rules. Along the way that circuit solves the All-Pairs-Shortest-Path problem on a graph.

Will be in Ann Arbor this weekend for this!

Appearing in this month's issue of Neural Computation: Predictive Coding, Variational Autoencoders, and Biological Connections. The paper reviews this under-explored intersection of neuro/AI and outlines the surprising implications.

2021: we can’t reproduce big lab’s research because we don’t have a 1000 GPUs 2022: we can’t reproduce this research because we don’t have a nuclear reactor.

Building a stronger bridge between academia and industry through our Residency program! If you are a #PhD in #STEM with proficiency in at least one coding language, consider applying today. Happy #worldquantumday

Excited to share my latest theory work on rodent maze navigation and reinforcement learning: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… inspired by a fascinating experiment from Matthew Rosenberg, Tony Zhang, Pietro Perona and Markus Meister.

[1/6] New model for Merlin Sound ID! We’ve been hard at work this summer improving performance and adding 186 new species, including 150 common Neotropical species! This is a drop in the bucket for this region, but it’s a start! Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab Merlin Bird ID Cornell Lab

First time bumped from flight + denied U.S. Department of Transportation comp. If you fly United Airlines basic economy: you’re basically standby. I got bumped despite arriving early to checkin (btw you must “finish your checkin” at airport). Machine failed -> 30 min line -> “late checkin”. Straight up scam.

Now in eLife, including some new results from student author Zeyu Jing: doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… eLife - the journal

I believe that if you understood intelligence, you could build it in software form on a $1M budget, including training. It would not need to be trained on the entire Internet, nor on the thought process of thousands of experts.

Tera AI comes out of stealth with $7.8M to provide visual navigation for robots tcrn.ch/4iztgtu

Robots won’t be truly helpful until they can navigate like humans. Tera AI is solving this with software-only spatial reasoning—helping robots move using just a camera, no extra sensors needed. James Detweiler and I are excited to back Tony Zhang and @TeraAI_ at @Felicis!

Congrats to Tony Zhang on their $7.8M seed. Most robots struggle to navigate unfamiliar environments. Tera AI is changing that with AI-powered, vision-based navigation. If you’re an AI researcher or an engineer, check out their role. Tony is some of the most talented founder

I’m beyond excited to finally share Tera AI (tera-ai.com) with the world. As some of you know, I’ve been long obsessed with cognitive maps and world models – AI with general-purpose spatial reasoning like humans. We're hiring!

Incredibly proud of our team.

True founder-first fund