Simons Institute Courses

AI and Emotions: Opportunities and Challenges

Explore the potential and challenges of AI emotion perception technologies, their applications, and the importance of responsible development and deployment practices.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Social Behavior Prediction from Video Observations

Explore AI techniques for predicting social behavior from video data, examining applications in psychology and neuroscience for understanding higher-level intelligence.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Retrospective on Multi-Agent Learning as a Path to Intelligence

Explore the potential of multi-agent learning in advancing artificial intelligence, drawing insights from psychology and neuroscience perspectives.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Educability - Understanding Higher-Level Intelligence

Exploring human educability: synthesizing learning from experience, others, and chaining knowledge. Proposes a computational approach to understanding and replicating broader human capabilities beyond example-based learning.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Cultural Evolution - Understanding Higher-Level Intelligence

Explore higher-level intelligence through AI, psychology, and neuroscience perspectives, focusing on cultural evolution and its impact on human cognition.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Emerging Interactions in Humans and Machines: From Social Physiology to Social Neuro-AI

Explore social cognition through multi-brain neuroscience and neuro-inspired AI, bridging intra-personal mechanisms and inter-personal dynamics to understand higher-level intelligence in humans and machines.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Linguistic Interaction in Humans and Machines - Understanding Higher-Level Intelligence

Exploring methods from cognitive science to study ML models and human cognition, focusing on language-based projects that analyze adaptation and generalization in linguistic interactions.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Understanding Higher-Level Intelligence: 10 AIs or 10 Billion AIs

Explore the future of AI: comparing small, specialized models with large, general-purpose systems. Insights from AI, psychology, and neuroscience on higher-level intelligence.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Understanding Higher-Level Intelligence from AI, Psychology, and Neuroscience Perspectives

Explore higher-level intelligence through AI, psychology, and neuroscience perspectives in this thought-provoking discussion featuring insights from experts at Georgia Tech and Carnegie Mellon.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

The Perception Test - Understanding Higher-Level Intelligence

Explore AI, psychology, and neuroscience perspectives on higher-level intelligence through Viorica Patraucean's insightful discussion of the Perception Test.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Passive Learning of Causal Strategies in Language Models

Exploring passive learning of causal strategies in AI, including generalization from interventional data and the role of natural language explanations in enhancing causal understanding.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

What Neural Machinery is Needed for Language Acquisition

Explore the neural mechanisms underlying language acquisition, integrating insights from AI, psychology, and neuroscience to understand higher-level intelligence.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

KiVA - Kid-inspired Visual Analogies for Large Multimodal Models

Explore kid-inspired visual analogies for enhancing multimodal AI models, bridging AI, psychology, and neuroscience perspectives on higher-level intelligence.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

A Comparative Cognition Approach to Evaluating AI Capabilities

Explore how comparative cognition methods can assess AI capabilities, drawing parallels between animal and artificial intelligence evaluation to gain insights into both fields.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Language Models as World Models? - Understanding Representations and Semantic Control

Explore how language models encode world knowledge, their limitations in semantic accuracy, and techniques for improving their representations and controllability.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video