Understanding Lower-Level Intelligence from AI, Psychology, and Neuroscience Perspectives

Program

Summer Cluster: AI, Psychology, and Neuroscience

Location

Calvin Lab auditorium

Date

Monday, June 3 – Friday, June 7, 2024

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All talks listed in Pacific Time. Schedule subject to change.

9 – 9:30 a.m.

Coffee and Check-in

9:30 – 9:45 a.m.

Opening Remarks

9:45 – 10:30 a.m.

Combining innate concepts with learning to perceive the world

Shimon Ullman (Weizmann Institute)

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Break

11 – 11:30 a.m.

What is the right "token" for next-token visual prediction?

Shiry Ginosar (UC Berkeley)

11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Toward a Theory of Perspective Perception in Pictures

Aaron Hertzmann (Adobe)

12 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)

1:30 – 2:15 p.m.

Neural computations for geometric reasoning

Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley)

2:15 – 2:30 p.m.

Lightning Talk: Louis Kang

Louis Kang (UC Berkeley)

2:30 – 3 p.m.

Characterizing the impact of noise on neural computation

Alex Williams (NYU, Flatiron Institute)

3 – 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 – 4:15 p.m.

Seeing Faces in Things: A Model and Dataset for Pareidolia

Bill Freeman (MIT)

4:15 – 5 p.m.

Discussion (Lead: Phillip Isola)

5 – 6 p.m.

Reception

9 – 9:30 a.m.

Coffee and Check-in

9:30 – 10:15 a.m.

Audio-visual self-supervised baby learning

Andrew Zisserman (Oxford University)

10:15 – 10:30 a.m.

Lightning Talk: Kaylene Stocking

Kaylene Stocking (UC Berkeley)

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Break

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Linking Learning and Control via the Apical Dendrites

Blake Richards (McGill University)

12 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)

1:30 – 2:15 p.m.

Empowerment Gain as Causal Learning

Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley)

2:15 – 3 p.m.

How does human and primate intelligence compare?

Amanda Seed (University of St Andrews)

3 – 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 – 4:15 p.m.

Putting ourselves out of business

Ted Adelson (MIT)

4:15 – 5 p.m.

Discussion (Lead: Shimon Ullman)

9 – 9:30 a.m.

Coffee and Check-in

9:30 – 10:15 a.m.

Manipulation teaches perception about abstraction

Pietro Perona (California Institute of Technology)

10:15 – 10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 – 11:30 a.m.

Climbing the Ladder of Causation Toward Mid-Level Vision

Dan Yamins (Stanford University)

11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

A Multimodal Automated Interpretability Agent

Antonio Torralba (MIT)

12 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)

1:30 – 2:15 p.m.

Physical problem-solving in minds and machines

Kelsey Allen (DeepMind)

2:15 – 2:45 p.m.

Relational Predictive Reasoning in Brains and Machines

Kim Stachenfeld (DeepMind, Columbia)

2:45 – 3:15 p.m.

Break

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Going beyond the here and now: Counterfactual simulation in human cognition

Tobias Gerstenberg (Stanford University)

3:45 – 4:15 p.m.

Through a glass, darkly: Approximations, hacks, and workarounds in intuitive physics and imagination

Tomer Ullman (Harvard University)

4:15 – 5 p.m.

Discussion (Lead: Blake Richards)

1:30 – 2:15 p.m.

New Models of Human Hearing via Machine Learning

Josh McDermott (MIT)

2:15 – 2:45 p.m.

Auditory cortex plasticity supports social learning

Dan Sanes (Center for Neural Science, New York University)

2:45 – 3:15 p.m.

Break

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Principles of learning in distributed neural networks

Andrew Saxe (University College London)

3:45 – 4:15 p.m.

The Evolutionary Sweet-Spot for Cognition

Thomas Morgan (Arizona State)

4:15 – 5 p.m.

Discussion (Lead: Alyosha Efros)

9 – 9:30 a.m.

Coffee and Check-in

9:30 – 10:15 a.m.

Discussion (Lead: Amanda Seed)

10:15 – 10:45 a.m.

Pathway to Robot Intelligence

Pulkit Agrawal (MIT)

10:45 – 11:15 a.m.

Break

11:15 a.m. – 12 p.m.

The Role of Prior Data in Rapid Learning of Motor Skills

Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley)

12 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)

1:30 – 1:45 p.m.

Lightning Talk: Gily Ginosar

Gily Ginosar (Weizmann Institute of Science)

1:45 – 2:30 p.m.

Robot learning, with inspiration from child development

Jitendra Malik (UC Berkeley)

2:30 – 3:15 p.m.

The Platonic Representation Hypothesis

Phillip Isola (MIT)

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.

Break

3:45 – 4:15 p.m.

Probing Neural Plasticity to Novel Color Vision in the Human Brain

Ren Ng (UC Berkeley)

4:15 – 4:45 p.m.

Lightning Talks: Tongzhou Wang, Antonio Loquercio, and Annya Dahmani

Tongzhou Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
Antonio Loquercio (UC Berkeley),
Annya Dahmani (UC Berkeley)

4:45 – 5 p.m.

Closing Words