MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence (SQI)
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MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence (SQI)
@MIT_Quest
SQI is fueling new discoveries in natural intelligence to produce the next breakthrough in artificial intelligence


Congratulations to @KavliPrize Laureates 2024 in neuroscience: @Nancy_Kanwisher at @mcgovernmit Winrich Freiwald @RockefellerUniv and @doristsao at @UCBerkeley We greatly look forward to welcoming you to Oslo and Trondheim in September!

For AI Researchers, Thinkers, Founders, and VCs: Announcing our Spring Summit on Fundamental Challenges for AI! bit.ly/springsummitai… We discuss core challenges & promising avenues in a day of high-profile keynotes & panels. Lunch & Reception included. April 15th, Bay Area, CA. 1/3



A proposal including School of Engineering Dean Anantha Chandrakasan was one of 27 selected to receive exploratory funding to probe generative AI's impact on democracy, education, sustainability, communications, and much more. news.mit.edu/2023/mit-schol…


How can deep learning further our understanding of human vision? @MIT Professor @JamesJDiCarlo joins Anthony Philippakis and @awiltschko on the Theory and Practice podcast to discuss reverse-engineering human sight with #AI. Listen to Episode 6 today🎧 — bit.ly/460QDWo


From Daniela Rus, director of @MIT_CSAIL: Universities founded centuries ago are the ones poised to tackle problems far enough removed from the market demands and day-to-day profit margins that drive industry’s shareholders. trib.al/Nus1sKA

Researchers have made an AI computer vision model more robust by training it to work like a part of the brain that humans and other primates rely on for object recognition. Read more: mitbcs.info/ufg




Congratulations to our new members! Just announced! We are honoring the excellence of extraordinary leaders in an array of disciplines and professions. The first members were elected in 1781. Learn who was elected in 2023: amacad.org/news/2023-memb…

As an educator, Jacob Andreas of @MITEECS finds a balance between using classic methodologies and newer techniques to teach natural language processing. Andreas was recently honored with the School of Engineering Junior Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching. 📷: Gretchen Ertl





