Thomas O'Connell

🔥Preprint Alert🔥 Excited to share some new work modeling human 3D shape perception! “Approaching human 3D shape perception with neurally mappable models” w/ @tylerraye, @_yonifriedman, @_atewari, Josh Tenenbaum, @vincesitzmann, @Nancy_Kanwisher arxiv.org/abs/2308.11300 🧵

Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N

do large-scale vision models represent the 3D structure of objects? excited to share our benchmark: multiview object consistency in humans and image models (MOCHI) with @xkungfu @YutongBAI1002 @thomaspocon @_yonifriedman @Nancy_Kanwisher Josh Tenenbaum and Alexei Efros 1/👀

@GusStgoReyes @russpoldrack @Nancy_Kanwisher ah amazing! congrats Gustavo 🥳

So happy to have received the NSF GRFP on cognitive neuroscience😄!!! Very thankful for the help of my current and previous mentors (shoutout: @russpoldrack, @Nancy_Kanwisher, @thomaspocon), the science peeps I’ve surrounded myself with, and the support of my fam 🇵🇷!!

🧵🎉 Our new preprint is up, and we’d love your feedback! We're "Getting Aligned on Representational Alignment" - the degree to which internal representations of different (biological & artificial) information processing systems agree. 🧠🤖🔬🔍 #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #AI

Thanks for reading! Please be in touch with any questions, ideas, desires to chat, etc!

Finally, check out related work from my awesome co-author @tylerraye implicating the medial temporal lobe in supporting human 3D inferences. He suggests computations beyond standard DNNs are needed to model this process. Hmmm potential synergy? 🤔 x.com/tylerraye/stat…

🔥Preprint Alert🔥 Excited to share some new work modeling human 3D shape perception! “Approaching human 3D shape perception with neurally mappable models” w/ @tylerraye, @_yonifriedman, @_atewari, Josh Tenenbaum, @vincesitzmann, @Nancy_Kanwisher arxiv.org/abs/2308.11300 🧵