What are the real problems to be solved in continual learning? In my latest post, I tackle this question ā reviewing where I think the field went astray in the past, how language models changed things, and where the real challenges remain.
infinitefaculty.substack.com/p/what-are-t...
Excited to be on our way to VSS! Donāt miss Sarah Tungās talk on Sunday afternoon in the development session. She will be presenting exciting results using awake infant fMRI to elucidate how and why we have category selective visual cortex!
(Sitting together on the plane was a happy accident)
Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry ā and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:
Excited to present with these stars at my first OHBM! Come check out my talk on precision mapping to study infant anatomical and functional development. We find striking evidence of both continuous AND discontinuous development
With so many eyes on Pittsburgh during the NFL Draft this weekend, it feels like a fitting moment to share some personal news ā I'm excited to be joining the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Fall 2027!
š§µ New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social
We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked
What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective
We call it the digital sphinx
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...