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Missions + Platforms
To understand intelligence, the Quest fosters and funds research Missions, which are supported by Platforms.
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Scaling Inference
The Scaling Inference team pursues an alternate scaling route for AI systems and for NI models, based on inference in probabilistic programs. Read More
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The Development of Intelligent Minds
This mission aims to understand how children grasp new concepts and build upon layers of concepts to reach an understanding of the world. Read More
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Perceptual Intelligence
The Perceptual Intelligence mission aims to produce machine executable models of human visual intelligence. Read More
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Intelligence Observatory
The Intelligence Observatory is a human behavioral testing and benchmarking platform. Read More
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Embodied Intelligence
The Embodied Intelligence mission addresses how we perceive the world around us and integrate this information to plan and complete tasks. Read More
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Brain-Score
The Brain-Score platform aims to yield accurate, machine-executable computational models of how the brain gives rise to the mind. Read More
News
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Recent news from the MIT Quest for Intelligence
In spring, the green grass and blue skies bring new energy to all our endeavors — and at the Quest, the past few months have seen remarkable activity in all our Missions and Platforms.
We’re excited to share a few updates with you — and we hope to engage in person, whether in Cambridge or elsewhere. -
Intelligence Observatory
The Intelligence Observatory will build modern, scalable frameworks to plan, execute, and disseminate large, high-precision surveys of natural cognition in varied environments — both virtual and physical.
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Training Machines to See in 3D
Humans understand the shape of objects just by looking at them, but machine learning models don't have the same spatial reasoning capabilities. Quest researchers ask why.
