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Discover the groundbreaking research directions pursued by The MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab on understanding the human mind, memory, emotions, and more. The lab works towards building intelligent systems, driven by both internal curiosity and external motivation. Meet the diverse team and learn about their innovative projects in various areas like image-guided surgery, humanoid robots, and more.
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The MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab New Research Directions Polina Golland http://www.ai.mit.edu
The Mission of the AI Lab • To answer: How does the human mind work? • Where does the mind reside? • What is the nature of memory? • What are the roles of emotions? • What sort of representations does the brain use? • What does our visual system compute? • How did evolution shape us? • How do we learn? • What is consciousness?
What Do We Really Do? • Try to build intelligent systems • often application driven • can be internally motivated (faculty or students) • can be motivated by sponsors • Always try to do intellectually exciting things • Put things together in larger scale ways than others might dare • “way cool” to do so • get to explore (first) different aspects of intellectual space than others might be stuck in
Who are we? • Faculty — 24 • Research Staff — 27 • Post Doctoral Associate — 8 • Visiting Scientists — 10 • Research Assistants — 103 • UROP — 30 • Assistants — 13 • Research Affiliate — 8Total: 223
Funding • 65% federal government • DARPA, ONR, NASA, … • 35% companies • Jointly with LCS • NTT collaboration • Project Oxygen • Nokia • Philips • Hewlett Packard • Acer • Delta Electronics • (NTT)
Some Selected Research • Image guided surgery • Intelligent prosthetics • Rational capture • Information access • Collaboration support • Humanoid robots • Cellular robots