Kreiman Lab

READING MATERIALS

01/28/2025 Gabriel Kreiman Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence. Hassabis et al. Neuron 2017

02/04/2025 Richard Born
Illusions, delusions, and your Backwards Bayesian Brain: A Biased Visual Perspective. Born et al. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 2021

Evolving Images for Visual Neurons Using a Deep Generative Network Reveals Coding Principles and Neuronal Preferences. Ponce et al. Cell 2019

02/11/2025 Haim Sompolinsky
The Geometry of Concept Learning

02/18/2025 Thomas Serre Deep Learning: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Serre, Annual Review of Vision 2019.

02/25/2025 Bill Lotter TBD

03/04/2025 Tomer Ullman
Mind games: Game engines as an architecture for intuitive physics. Ullman et al. TICS 2017

Bayesian models of conceptual development: learning as building models of the world. Ullman et al. Ann. Rev. Psychology 2020

03/11/2025 Isaac Kohane TBD

03/18/2025 No class (spring break)
Read a classic during Spring Break. Alan Turing: Computing machinery and intelligence (1950)

And/or read a fun book. Brain Christian: The most human human. What talking with comptuers teaches us about what it means to be alive (1984).

03/25/2025 Cass Sunstein Sunstein. Artificial intelligence and the first amendment (2023)

04/01/2025 Kanaka Rajan Perich and Rajan. Rethinking brain-wide interactions through multi-region 'network of networks' models (Curr Op Neurobiol 2020).
Perich et al. Inferring brain-wide interactions using data-constrained recurrent neural network models (bioRxiv 2021).

04/08/2025 Jan Drugowitsch
Pouget, Beck, Ma & Latham (2013). Probabilistic brains: knowns and unknowns. Nature Neuroscience. doi:10.1038/nn.3495

Drugowitsch, Mendonça, Mainen & Pouget (2013). Learning optimal decisions with confidence. PNAS.

04/15/2025 Andrei Barbu TBD

04/22/2025 Cengiz Pehlevan Population codes enable learning from few examples by shaping inductive bias. Bordelon and Pehlevan. bioRxiv 2021

04/29/2025 Gabriel Kreiman
Regulating advanced artificial agents. Cohen et al 2024.

Debates on the nature of Artificial General Intelligence. Mitchell 2024.

05/06/2025 Students Student presentations

05/13/2025 Students Student presentations

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01/28/2025	Gabriel Kreiman	Neuroscience-Inspired Artificial Intelligence. Hassabis et al. Neuron 2017
02/04/2025	Richard Born	Illusions, delusions, and your Backwards Bayesian Brain: A Biased Visual Perspective. Born et al. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 2021 Evolving Images for Visual Neurons Using a Deep Generative Network Reveals Coding Principles and Neuronal Preferences. Ponce et al. Cell 2019
02/11/2025	Haim Sompolinsky	The Geometry of Concept Learning
02/18/2025	Thomas Serre	Deep Learning: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Serre, Annual Review of Vision 2019.
02/25/2025	Bill Lotter	TBD
03/04/2025	Tomer Ullman	Mind games: Game engines as an architecture for intuitive physics. Ullman et al. TICS 2017 Bayesian models of conceptual development: learning as building models of the world. Ullman et al. Ann. Rev. Psychology 2020
03/11/2025	Isaac Kohane	TBD
03/18/2025	No class (spring break)	Read a classic during Spring Break. Alan Turing: Computing machinery and intelligence (1950) And/or read a fun book. Brain Christian: The most human human. What talking with comptuers teaches us about what it means to be alive (1984).
03/25/2025	Cass Sunstein	Sunstein. Artificial intelligence and the first amendment (2023)
04/01/2025	Kanaka Rajan	Perich and Rajan. Rethinking brain-wide interactions through multi-region 'network of networks' models (Curr Op Neurobiol 2020). Perich et al. Inferring brain-wide interactions using data-constrained recurrent neural network models (bioRxiv 2021).
04/08/2025	Jan Drugowitsch	Pouget, Beck, Ma & Latham (2013). Probabilistic brains: knowns and unknowns. Nature Neuroscience. doi:10.1038/nn.3495 Drugowitsch, Mendonça, Mainen & Pouget (2013). Learning optimal decisions with confidence. PNAS.
04/15/2025	Andrei Barbu	TBD
04/22/2025	Cengiz Pehlevan	Population codes enable learning from few examples by shaping inductive bias. Bordelon and Pehlevan. bioRxiv 2021
04/29/2025	Gabriel Kreiman	Regulating advanced artificial agents. Cohen et al 2024. Debates on the nature of Artificial General Intelligence. Mitchell 2024.
05/06/2025	Students	Student presentations
05/13/2025	Students	Student presentations

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