UNIQUE Center Neuro-AI

On #InternationalWomensDay, UNIQUE Neuro-AI recognizes that progress in #Neuroscience and #AI must be built year-round, by challenging inequality and supporting women across the academic pipeline. Check-out: @WiMLworkshop @WomeninNeuro @BlackWomenInAI @BWiT_ALL

#MAIN2025 Looks like everybody has disappeared for lunch 👻 … Next up after lunch will be Ida Momennejad @criticalneuro ! #Montreal #Neuroscience #AI

🔴 Live: Panel discussion #1: @ MAIN2025 The future of Neuroscience - The role of AI ?  with Andreas Tolias, Siva Reddy, Joao Sacramento, Ching Fang + Eva Portelance Moderated by Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault #MAIN2025

Our first Keynote lecture of this year’s MAIN 2025…..🥁 Andreas Tolias(Stanford, CA, USA) @AToliasLab "Foundation models and digital twins of the brain" #Foundationmodels #MAIN2025 #Neuroscience #AI

🔴 Live : Talk #4 @ MAIN2025 Siva Reddy (McGill & Mila) “The role of memory in long chain-of-thought reasoning” 👉 main2025.org #MAIN2025

🔴 Live : Talk #3 at #MAIN2025 Joao Sacramento (Google): “Emergent temporal abstractions in autoregressive models enable hierarchical reinforcement learning” #RL #NeuroAI

🔴Live Talk #2 at Montreal AI & Neuroscience #MAIN2025 👉 Choong-Wan Woo (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea) entitled “Pain, interoception, and life-inspired artificial intelligence” More info at main2025.org #MAIN2025 #PAIN #Neuroscience

🎉MAIN 2025 conferences just kicked of Our opening lecture is by Ching Fang (Goodfire AI, San Francisco) - "From Memories to Maps: Mechanisms of In-Context Reinforcement Learning in Transformers" Montreal AI & Neuroscience is brought to you by @ai_unique #MAIN2025 #NeuroAI #RL

LAST CALL : Only a couple of days left to resgister for the Montreal AI & Neuroscience MAIN 2025 meeting / Dec 12-13th @ HEC Montreal !! Don’t miss it ! Register today ! 👉 main2025.org #Neuroscience #AI #MAIN2025

New paper: "Large Language Models & Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell). We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from perspective of what emergence means in complexity science. ⬇️

I’ve been training neural nets for 30 years. There was never a day I didn’t wish I had more compute. Finding solutions to problems just means we can now solve bigger problems and that is very exciting! I am finding the hype followed by panic this month to be rather exaggerated. Please remain calm and centred, especially if you’re an AI builder under pressure from managers or investors. We can’t build AI safely when we easily fall prey to either hype or panic.

Last chance to register! 👇👇

Last 24h to register for MAIN 2024 happening in Montreal next week! 👉 main2024.org Also check-out the Educational day on Oct 25th (which requires separate registration). 🧠 🤖 🥯 🐼 #Neuroscience #AI #Montreal

MAIN 2024 / Please share! 👉 Registration + Abstract submission for Montreal #AI & #Neuroscience are open ! Join us for an in-person meeting in Montreal October 22-25th ! Register now (limited space): 👉 main2024.org 🐼 Abstract submission: 15 Oct! (Audio on)

Please share this announcement + check out the program on our website: main2024.org This is an in-person event organized by UNIQUE center @ai_unique at Université de Montréal @UMontreal powered by @FRQ_NT 🙏 Selected lectures might be streamed live. More info soon!

Breaking News: Registration + Abstract submission for Montreal #AI & #Neuroscience (MAIN 2024) are now open ! 🎉🎉 Join us for an in-person meeting in Montreal October 22-25th ! Register now (limited space): 👉 main2024.org Abstract submission deadline: 15 Oct!

An excellent thread by @anilkseth on the (im)probability of Conscious AI, Computational Functionalism and much more! (The discussions at @theASSC in Tokyo next week are going to be fun!) 👇👇

@CERVO_ULaval @CatherineDuclo6 @DynamicaLab Finally, thanks to all the USS2024 organizing committee and to the participants who came to Quebec city for the 5th edition of USS ! We hope to see you next year ✨🚀

USS2024 concludes! 🎉 Big thanks to @CERVO_ULaval for hosting and to our sponsors Millenium & CEREBRUM! Special appreciation to Dr. @CatherineDuclo6, Sebastien Tremblay, Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal, and Patrick Desrosiers (@DynamicaLab) for being our Keynotes!  📷 #USS2024

@CERVO_ULaval @CatherineDuclo6 @DynamicaLab And thanks to the speakers of the Neurotechnology and AI workshop 🤖🧠: @mcgillneurotech, Frederic Simard, Jean-Simon Boucher & Marc-Antoine Moinnereau (@Kaptics_)

@CERVO_ULaval @CatherineDuclo6 @DynamicaLab Thanks to the panelists who provided interesting perspectives on important topics: @NazSepahvand, @dvnxmvl_hdf5, @LamaSaouma, William Leclerc, Julia Obergasteiger, Sarah-Julie Bouchard, Nathalie Sanon (@IVADO_Qc) & Adel A. (@MitacsCanada)