Join us at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig as a fully funded 4-year postdoc position (m/f/d) in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Area: Social Cognition). Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by 13 July: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/44...?
Attending #Cosyne2026?
Come by our poster in the afternoon (#021) to talk about the sense of control, empowerment, and agency. 🧠🤖
We propose a unifying formulation of the sense of control and empirically characterize the human subjective sense of control.
Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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To appear in Computational Brain & Behavior soon: the claimed 2024 proof (also in CBB) that AGI via learning is intractable also "proves" that ImageNet is intractable. My reading of the hole: equivocation on the variable D. Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.06498
I am shocked to see this language from the NSF.
“The U.S. National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request reflects a strategic alignment of resources in a constrained fiscal environment while eliminating woke and weaponized grant programs that previously funded radical DEI projects.”
If you are attending #ICLR2026, please come and say hi to our group members presenting the papers 👇
Talk to the model here:
talkie-lm.com/chat
📢📢 Announcing this year's conference on the Mathematics of Neuroscience & AI (Rome, 9-12th June). We’ve got a stellar line-up and venue, and invite everyone to join:
www.neuromonster.org
Alireza Modirshanechi, Benjamin Eysenbach, Peter Dayan, Eric Schulz: Unifying Goal-Conditioned RL and Unsupervised Skill Learning via Control-Maximization https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06145 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.06145 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.06145
Eric Schulz
A recent paper (van Rooij et al. 2024) claims to have proved that achieving human-like intelligence using learning from data is intractable in a complexity-theoretic sense. We point out that the proof...
Excited to announce that I'll be starting my own lab in Tübingen this October!
Hiring at all levels: Postdoc, PhD & RA.
Want to work on computational cognitive science at scale? Apply: core-cognition.github.io
Reposts and shares much appreciated 🙏
Doeller Lab
Mike Guerzhoy
Alireza Modirshanechi
Zeynep Akata
Leslie Rissler
David Duvenaud
Ruairidh McLennan Battleday
arXiv cs.LG Machine Learning
🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%).
Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026.
Apply/info: hcai-munich.com/PhD_Job_Ad.pdf
Reposts appreciated 🙏
