Formerly: physicist turned cognitive scientist @MIT Presently: Research Scientist @DeepMind I like humans, crows, primates and robots
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1/6 How does growing up in a different body affect how people think about the world? Our new paper (tinyurl.com/4uvesabh) with @realkevinsmith, @mitcocosci, @plasticity_lab, @dcowiedurham, @BOLDkidsUK, studies problem-solving in children and adults born with 0, 1, or 2 hands.
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Kelsey Allen retweeted
A hallmark of human intelligence is the capacity for rapid adaptation, solving new problems quickly under novel and unfamiliar conditions. How can we build machines to do so?
In our new preprint, we propose that any general intelligence system must have an adaptive world model, i.e. they must be able to rapidly construct or refine their internal representation through interaction and exploration — a process we call “world model induction”.
We propose a roadmap for evaluating adaptive world models in machines based on a special class of games we call “novel games”.
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Humans can tell the difference between a realistic generated video and an unrealistic one – can models?
Excited to share TRAJAN: the world’s first point TRAJectory AutoeNcoder for evaluating motion realism in generated and corrupted videos.
🌐 trajan-paper.github.io
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TRAJAN is not perfect (see the paper for some failure modes 🤪), but we see this work as an exciting step towards spatiotemporally localized automatic evaluation of generated videos.
A demo colab is available here: github.com/google-deepmind/t…
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This was a fun project with an awesome set of collaborators at @GoogleAI and @GoogleDeepMind (@CarlDoersch, @zhouguangyao, @msuhail153, @dannydriess, Ignacio Rocco, @YuliaRubanova, @tkipf, Mehdi Sajjadi, @sirbayes, Joao Carreira and @vansteenkiste_s)
Come see us at ICML in July!
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Do you sometimes wish you had a human behavioral task so in tune with the mind's real-world abilities that the owner of that mind would be naturally drawn to the task?
A task so engaging and intuitive that your subjects would almost pay you rather than you paying them? 1/2
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Looking for a new paradigm for your next research project? Then look no further:
nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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3/6 However, most studies look at problem-solving in the physical world, where people with different limbs simply have different action capabilities. Might there be knock-on effects when we level the playing field by having everyone play a *virtual* physical problem-solving game?
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5/6 Embodied experience therefore affects problem-solving in a profound way, beyond tasks where manual interaction per se is difficult. We would like to thank all our participants and the charities we work with, @LBofoundation and @ReachCharity, who made this research possible!
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6/6 We are excited about this initial work, but there is lots more to do to understand how the unique life experiences of children growing up with limb differences contribute to their general problem-solving skills. See tinyurl.com/4uvesabh for the paper, data, and analyses.
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2/6 When growing up with a missing hand your interactions with the world may look very different, especially when the world was built for people with two hands. You might not be able to rely on imitating your peers, instead you must find creative ways to interact with objects.
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1/6 How does growing up in a different body affect how people think about the world? Our new paper (tinyurl.com/4uvesabh) with @realkevinsmith, @mitcocosci, @plasticity_lab, @dcowiedurham, @BOLDkidsUK, studies problem-solving in children and adults born with 0, 1, or 2 hands.
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Kelsey Allen retweeted
We're hiring interns on the Structured Intelligence team at @DeepMind. If you're interested in richly structured data, representations and computations, eg., learning simulation, GNNs, probabilistic generative models, etc, please apply-
Internship applications are now open! This year we have opportunities across various teams and offices 🌎🌍
Apply today via dpmd.ai/internships and learn more about the experience below ⬇️
#DeepMindInterns
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Golfers can play even on windy days! How do people make physical predictions about how objects will behave even in novel situations? Check out our new paper exploring this question w/ @KelseyRAllen, @EdVul and @judyefan! (see us at #CogSci2022!)
paper: cogtoolslab.github.io/pdf/wa…
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The Best Scientists 🧵
I have heard a lot about the Best Scientists 🧑🔬
Maybe the best scientists...
make impactful discoveries,
publish in gilded journals,
garner millions in funding,
with lots of indirects.
And prizes, all the prizes🏆
And everybody respects them.
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I am incredibly honoured to be one of the @cogsci_soc Glushko dissertation prize winners this year! A casual 6.5 years, through 3 different thesis topics (never give up!). If you'd like to watch my defense piped.video/icheRZq7DYE?t=452, it is rainbow cake-themed and full of puns 🌈🍰🌈
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