MIT INTELLIGENCE INITIATIVE

Many of us at MIT believe that the time has come for a new, fresh attack on these problems. The launching off point will be a new integration of the fields of cognitive science, which studies the mind, neuroscience, which studies the brain, and computer science and artificial intelligence, which develop intelligent hardware and software. These fields grew up together in the 1950's but drifted apart as each became more specialized. In the 21st century they are re-converging, driven by new tools that allow studies of the brain and mind to inform the design of intelligent artifacts and vice versa - a virtuous loop from science to engineering and from engineering to science. These tools include radical increases in computing power, the availability of massive multimodal datasets, and the development of unifying mathematical frameworks for learning, inference and decision that support a common understanding of intelligence in minds, brains and machines. Around the core of these fields, the..

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