The Learning Salon

For livestreams and recordings of ongoing and past Salons,

please go to

our Learning Salon YouTube channel
or the World Wide Neuro YouTube channel

Upcoming Events

David Barack
Fri, May 14
Crowdcast
May 14, 4:00 PM
Crowdcast
Two views on the cognitive brain https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-021-00448-6?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatRevNeurosci #LearningSalon www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon
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Sam Gershman
Fri, May 21
Crowdcast
May 21, 4:00 PM
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Learning without a brain https://gershmanlab.com/pubs/cell_learning.pdf https://www.the-scientist.com/features/can-single-cells-learn-68694 #LearningSalon www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon
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Zenna Tavares
Fri, May 28
Online
May 28, 4:00 PM
Online
#LearningSalon https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon
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Andrew Witten
Fri, Jun 04
Crowdcast
Jun 04, 4:00 PM
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The Burgeoning Reach of Animal Culture https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/2021-whiten.pdf https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.2718 https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6537/eabe6514 #LearningSalon www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon
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Rosa Cao
Fri, Jun 11
Crowdcast
Jun 11, 4:00 PM
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#LearningSalon www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon
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Janice Chen
Fri, May 07
Online
May 07, 4:00 PM EDT
Online
Memory for narratives and other naturally-occurring experiences https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.4450 #LearningSalon https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/
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Anima Anandkumar
Fri, Apr 30
Online
Apr 30, 4:00 PM EDT
Online
Ingredients for bridging the gap between artificial and human intelligence https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09200 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00763 https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00631 https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14560 http://proceedings.mlr.press/v124/ren20a.html https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/
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Kate Crawford
Fri, Apr 16
Online
Apr 16, 5:00 PM EDT
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ATLAS OF AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence https://bit.ly/376GzyR #LearningSalon https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/
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Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett
Fri, Apr 09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvtJZdbQUCY
Apr 09, 4:00 PM EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvtJZdbQUCY
Curiosity, Power, and the Shape of Inquiry Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry https://www.amazon.com/Curiosity-Power-Politics-Perry-Zurn/dp/1517907195 Viewing curiosity as fundamentally relational https://psyarxiv.com/crzae Seizing an opportunity https://elifesciences.org/articles/48336
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Simon Kornblith
Fri, Apr 02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvAOJm2SjzQ
Apr 02, 4:00 PM EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvAOJm2SjzQ
Do computer vision models need to learn like humans in order to act https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2019/html/Kornblith_Do_Better_ImageNet_Models_Transfer_Better_CVPR_2019_paper.html http://proceedings.mlr.press/v119/chen20j.html #LearningSalon https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/
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Jacqueline Gottlieb
Fri, Mar 26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWOEeTYqIpw
Mar 26, 4:00 PM EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWOEeTYqIpw
The many dimensions of information demand: utilities, timescales and the brain https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Towards-a-neuroscience-of-active-sampling-and-Gottlieb-Oudeyer/e71bc82fe498aad59b5f96b7606a89f4fd6f7f5b #LearningSalon https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/
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Christopher Honey
Fri, Mar 19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1R4VOBHulQ
Mar 19, 4:00 PM EDT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1R4VOBHulQ
Timescales in natural and artificial intelligence https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06694 https://openreview.net/forum?id=J3OUycKwz- https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.06694 https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/
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Kirsty Graham
Fri, Mar 12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTZKFxELVCc
Mar 12, 4:00 PM EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTZKFxELVCc
Meaning and context in Great Ape Gestures https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2004825 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2018.0403 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5306194/ #LearningSalon https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/
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Randall O’Reilly
Fri, Mar 05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uahxn1nExE
Mar 05, 4:00 PM EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uahxn1nExE
How might the neocortex learn? https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14800 #LearningSalon https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/
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Katja Hofmann
Fri, Feb 26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFyjE6_kTvE
Feb 26, 4:00 PM EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFyjE6_kTvE
Games as Playground and Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence #LearningSalon https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/
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Hugo Spiers
Fri, Feb 19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70EdjTexIy0
Feb 19, 4:00 PM EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70EdjTexIy0
#LearningSalon https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/experimental-psychology/person/hugo-spiers-2/
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Caswell Barry
Fri, Feb 12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDEJZYQxs0
Feb 12, 4:00 PM EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDEJZYQxs0
#LearningSalon https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/
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Kimberly Stachenfeld
Fri, Feb 05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFW0AfEMcl4
Feb 05, 4:00 PM EST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFW0AfEMcl4
Representation Learning and Cognitive Maps #LearningSalon https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/
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