Very happy to announce that the Melting Pot challenge, a NeurIPS 2023 contest, is now open for submissions! Test how well your agents cooperate with familiar and unfamiliar co-players in complex social scenarios!

Strongly recommend any students working in cognitive science consider applying for this! SARMAC is a great society run by wonderful people, and I learned so much from my time serving on the Student Executive Board. Happy to chat with anyone who is interested! 👇

The SARMAC Committee on Diversity and Inclusion would love to receive your proposals for the inaugural SARMAC Collaborative Grants! Apply for up to $2000 USD for a new collaboration between two researchers from different institutions. Deadline 1 Dec! sarmac.org/collaborative-…

I'm looking for a post-doc to work on my #episodicmemory project! If you're interested in how we can use artificial implementations of episodic memory in AI to help us understand episodic memory in biological systems, hit me up :) More on the project here: lse.ac.uk/cpnss/research…

Just two days left to nominate yourself for the Society for Applied Research in Memory & Cognition Student Executive Board! Don't miss out on this awesome opportunity 👀

🚨 One week left to apply for this post-doc on my project! We'll be looking at how episodic memory in AI systems can shed light on episodic memory in humans and animals. If you have questions about the position, get in touch!

Thrilled to announce that I’ll be joining Google DeepMind as a Research Scientist at the end of the month! Incredibly excited about the opportunity to use my expertise in cognitive science to help the team build more capable, robust, and safe AI systems!

Working memory load affects intelligence test performance by reducing the strength of relational item bindings and impairing the filtering of irrelevant information sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Over the weekend there was a sinister plot to divert attention from our newly published nature paper. Thankfully, you can still read it here (no paywall): nature.com/articles/s4158…

Introducing Gemini 1.0, our most capable and general AI model yet. Built natively to be multimodal, it’s the first step in our Gemini-era of models. Gemini is optimized in three sizes - Ultra, Pro, and Nano Gemini Ultra’s performance exceeds current state-of-the-art results on

We’re excited to announce 𝗚𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶: Google’s largest and most capable AI model. Built to be natively multimodal, it can understand and operate across text, code, audio, image and video - and achieves state-of-the-art performance across many tasks. 🧵 dpmd.ai/announcing-gem…

The Gemini era is here. Thrilled to launch Gemini 1.0, our most capable & general AI model. Built to be natively multimodal, it can understand many types of info. Efficient & flexible, it comes in 3 sizes each best-in-class & optimized for different uses blog.google/technology/ai/…

🟠Delighted to share that my book The Ideological Brain will be coming out in March! 🔵 It’s about what makes brains susceptible to rigid worldviews, how ideologies infiltrate our minds & bodies, and what it means to break free. 📘If you're curious: amazon.com/Ideological-Br…

I really enjoyed reviewing The Ideological Brain by Leor Zmigrod this week. It’s a fascinating insight into how people with extreme political views actually think - and how their brains eschew reality Review for Times Culture, free to read 🔗 thetimes.com/article/deaae6…

📘 The Ideological Brain is out now & available in bookstores! 📙 The book explores why some people gravitate towards the extremes & how our brains shape and are shaped by the ideologies we choose 🧠 Readers’ responses below ⬇️ (US / CA cover on the left; UK on the right) 🌎

Had a blast on Offline with Jon Favreau Jon Favreau talking about my new book The Ideological Brain! Thanks for the great discussion about nature vs nurture in political extremism. Full interview on YouTube & wherever you get your podcasts! Crooked Media youtube.com/watch?v=BqvD6Y…