First was a great talk by Andrew Whiten on animal #culture at the #LearningSalon. Whiten explains how research into social learning, and even culture, in non-human animals has exploded recently, and he explores some of the implications of that research here. You can probably skip the discussion afterwards though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqlGMc5vAh0 (2/9) #anthropology #sociology

First was a great talk by Rosa Cao on representations in the brain at the #LearningSalon. While a lot of the focus here is on #neuroscience, it's also around how we think about representations and classification in general https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxwa1yN24JI (2/8)

First was a great conversation between #LearningSalon hosts @criticalneuro and John Krakauer on lots of topics covered at the salon in 2021, with a particular focus on the "reward is enough" paper from DeepMind that came out a bit before this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEjL-di19F0 (2/12)

First was an engaging conversation with @NeilLewisJr on #race, geography, and how to reduce disparities at the #LearningSalon. Lewis brought academic heft to the discussion that followed his talk, which was more of a listening session for questions from folks in AI/cognitive science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1RljRk0hMg (2/8)

Last was an amazing examination of different models of the mind by @Neurograce at the #LearningSalon. Lindsay goes through the history of some of the most widely used models in #AI today, placing them in their historical context. A robust discussion on the nature of "mind" ensues. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5yYxHJ2KFM (8/8) #neuroscience

Next was a fantastic discussion with Gina Poe on the cognitive #neuroscience of #sleep at the #LearningSalon. This is the best talk on the function and benefits of sleep I've ever heard, and the Q&A following the initial talk is extremely rich as well. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5HaIlwjN4 (6/9)

Next was a fascinating talk discussion with Marina Bedny on neural adaptation to blindness and programming exercises at the #LearningSalon. The experiments presented here were eye-opening, and the associated robust debate gives tons of insight into how to think about neuroplasticity and its limits. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTd8iGVHtSE (8/9) #neuroscience #CognitiveScience

First was a wide-ranging conversation with Gyorgy Buzsaki on the nature of the brain at the #LearningSalon. There's tons of thoughtful debate here about the extent to which neural structures are baked in versus develop over time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzM0Ry7icP8 (2/7) #neuroscience #CognitiveScience

Last was a spicy discussion with Evelina Fedorenko on the #language system in the human brain at the #LearningSalon. The key arguments here, that word meanings and processing aren't separated and that artificial networks can serve as useful models of human language processing, do break down during the ensuing debate, but that makes the whole conversation all the more instructive. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsoQFZxrv-I (9/9) #LLMs

Next was a spirited conversation with @Gualtiero on the language of thought at the #LearningSalon. Starting with a deconstruction of "digital" approaches to explaining thought, the discussion moves towards what little we know about how thought operates and what frameworks might be the most useful to examine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xg4d3fEJ90 (3/6)

RT @criticalneuro
Friends of the #learningsalon, @blamlab @melaniemit
@csuncodes & I are excited to have a prominent memory researcher & a creator of Hippocamera:
Dr. Morgan Barense
talk to us about Hippocamera https://www.hippocamera.com/
Friday, May 5, 4PM ET
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon
Join us!

Friends of the #learningsalon,
John Krakauer, @melaniemitchell , Claire Sun & I are excited to have a prominent memory researcher & a creator of Hippocamera:
@barense talk to us about Hippocamera https://hippocamera.com
Friday, May 5, 4PM ET
https://crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon
Join us!

Next was a nice talk by Sara Mednick on the power of downstate at the #LearningSalon. There's a lot here about the science of #rest and #sleep on health and performance, and the discussion got into the real data and stats behind different practices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv305xN5Dk8 (3/7)

Next was an engaging talk by Oriel FeldmanHall on rewards, emotions, and human predictions at the #LearningSalon. Using some clever experiments, FeldmanHall convincingly demonstrates that valence and arousal need to be considered as separate dimensions from rewards to more accurately understand the types of prediction errors people make. The robust discussion after the talk is also great. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBPvxq5mLdI&t=5s (6/9) #emotion

RT @criticalneuro
Friends, please join our 60th (!) session of the #LearningSalon
*Friday March 3, 4-6:30 EST*
@blamlab @MelMitchell1 @csuncodes & I are honored to have the inimitable
**Yoshua Bengio**
a leading pioneer of deep learning, Turing awardee, & climate activist.
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/60

RT @criticalneuro
Friends, please join our 60th (!) session of the #LearningSalon
*Friday March 3, 4-6:30 EST*
@blamlab @MelMitchell1 @csuncodes & I are honored to have the inimitable
**Yoshua Bengio**
a leading pioneer of deep learning, Turing awardee, & climate activist.
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/60

Friends, please join our 60th (!) session of the #LearningSalon
*Friday March 3, 4-6:30 EST*

John Krakauer, @melaniemitchell Claire Sun & I are honored to have the inimitable

**Yoshua Bengio**

a leading pioneer of #deeplearning, a Turing awardee, & a climate activist.

https://crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/60

* The #LearningSalon is an online interdisciplinary forum, with brief talks & 2-hour discussions on #neuroscience #deeplearning #AI #psychology #philosophy

RT @criticalneuro
Friends of the #LearningSalon,
We, @blamlab @MelMitchell1 @csuncodes & myself, are excited to discuss all things prefrontal cortex & monkey electrophysiology with the one & only @MillerLabMIT
Join us this Friday 4-6:30(ish) PM
for our 59th (!!) session:
https://www.crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/59

Friends of the #LearningSalon,

John Krakauer, @melaniemitchell , Claire Sun & I are excited to discuss all things prefrontal cortex, executive function & monkey electrophysiology with the one & only
@MillerLabMIT

Join us this Friday 4-6:30(ish) PM
for our 59th (!!) session:

https://crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/59

* The #LearningSalon is an online interdisciplinary forum, with brief talks & 2-hour discussions on #neuroscience #AI #psychology #philosophy

RT @davidchalmers42
the video for my #NeurIPS2022 talk on "could a large language model be conscious?" is now online. i've given versions of the same material at adelaide, deepmind, NYU, and the #LearningSalon, but this is the best version. written version coming soon!

https://nips.cc/virtual/2022/invited-talk/55867