Past Events

All are invited to the CBMM | Quest: Brains, Minds, and Machines Seminar Series, featuring Demis Hassabis, the Founder and CEO of DeepMind, the world’s leading AI research company that aims to solve intelligence to advance science and benefit humanity. Founded in London in 2010, DeepMind has achieved breakthrough results in many challenging AI domains from Atari games to StarCraft II, and has published over 1000 research papers - including more than two dozen in Nature and Science.

This talk will focus on the cellular and biophysical mechanisms by which the direction of image motion is computed in Drosophila neurons.

Join the MIT Quest for Intelligence and the Artificial Intelligence @ MIT Student Group for a Panel Discussion! This event will focus on MIT Quest for Intelligence Research Missions. Speakers include: Jim DiCarlo, Director, Quest for Intelligence, Nick Roy, Director, MIT Quest Systems Engineering, Nancy Kanwisher, Walter A. Rosenblith Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Robert Yang, Associate Investigator, McGovern Institute Assistant Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Join the MIT Quest for Intelligence and the Artificial Intelligence @ MIT Student Group for a mini Research Blitz! This event will focus on Brain Guided Intelligence Hardware. Speakers include Bilge Yildiz, Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and, Jacob Andreas, X Consortium Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Join the MIT Quest for Intelligence to learn more about our UROP program. We will discuss and answer questions regarding the UROP application process and current research opportunities. Speakers include Nicholas Roy, Director, MIT Quest Systems Engineering, Katherine Fairchild, Quest AI Software Engineer, and Dhaval Adjodah, Quest Research Scientist.

MIT Quest AI Roundtable: Nearly 7,000 languages are spoken in the world today, but fewer than two dozen have the massive training data required to build AI applications like language and speech-to-text translation. The problem is compounded by a shortage of computing resources in much of the world. This panel will explore ways of making natural language processing more efficient, interpretable, and linguistically informed, to reach speakers of all languages.

Businesses are integrating artificial intelligence and machine learning into every facet of their work, but we’re far from realizing their potential. An understanding of what’s possible, and what’s still over the horizon, is essential to understanding how businesses can maximize the value of AI and ML.

MIT Quest AI Roundtable: AI has the potential to address longstanding societal problems, from economic inequality to unequal access to healthcare, but it could also widen these divisions without deliberate steps to mitigate AI’s potential negative effects. We will discuss ideas for harnessing AI for the benefit of all. Speakers: Fotini Christia (MIT); Stacy Hobson (IBM); Moderator: Aude Oliva.