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Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course

The field of Artificial Intelligence has produced impressive machines, such as Deep Blue, Watson, and Siri, that can beat a world chess champion, win the game of Jeopardy, and communicate in natural language. Yet few would view their behavior as brain-like or human intelligence. Computers still fare poorly on tasks that even young infants can perform, such as answering simple questions about a visual scene, Who is there? What are they doing? What happened previously? What will happen next? In this short introduction, Tomaso Poggio talks about how the synergy of recent advances in neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI, will enable us to understand the processes underlying human intelligence, from the neural circuits of the brain to the level of cognitive behavior.

Complete Course

Tomaso Poggio, and Gabriel Kreiman. RES.9-003 Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course. Summer 2015. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

Origines évolutives des variations génétiques – Molly Przeworski

D’où vient la variabilité génétique observée dans toutes les espèces ? Quelle est la base moléculaire de l’adaptation ? Quelles sont les causes et les conséquences de la variation du taux de recombinaison chez les vertébrés ? Autant de questions qui seront abordées pendant les enseignements dispensés par le Pr Molly Przeworski au Collège de France.