"today we have Josh Tenenbaum he's a professor here at MIT leading the computational cognitive science group among many other topics and cognition and intelligence he is fascinated with the question of..."

"welcome all right thank you very much thanks for having me decided to be part of what looks like really quite a very impressive lineup especially starting after today and it's I think quite a great op..."

"who are affiliated with the Center for brains minds and machines so you can see up there on my affiliation academically I'm part of brain and cognitive science or course nine I'm also part of csail bu..."

"the reasons that you know brought you all here I don't have to tell you this we have all these ways in which AI is kind of finally here we finally live in the era of something like real practical AI o..."

"one thing so alphago might beat the worlds best but it can't drive to the match or even tell you that go it what go is it can't even tell you the go is a game because it doesn't even know what a game ..."

"again in CBMM is summarized here um what what drives the success is right now in AI especially in industry okay and all these AI technologies is many many things many things but what's what where the ..."

"weights in a neural net that are used for those purposes but many activities of learning are about building out new models right either refining reusing improving old models or actually building funda..."

"think what what I want to talk to you about here is one route for trying to get there and this is the route that CBMM stands for the idea that by reverse engineering how intelligence works in the huma..."

"you know maybe some of you have read these original papers here's here's the original paper by rumelhart Hinton and colleagues in which they introduced the back propagation algorithm for training mult..."

"software systems right but this is where the basic the basic math came from and it came from doing science like an engineer so what I want to talk about in our vision is what is the future of this loo..."

"focus is around visual intelligence and there's many reasons for that again we can build on the successes of deep networks and a lot of pattern recognition and machine vision it's a good way to put th..."

"haven't turned around in a while right but some part of your brain is tracking the whole world around you right and how many people are behind you yeah like a few hundred right I mean I don't know if ..."

"what we've been doing in CBMM is trying to develop an architecture for visual intelligence and I'm not going to go into any of the details of how this works and this is just notional this is just a pi..."

"industry incentives especially optimized for it's not even really trying to take us to these things so think about for example a case study of visual intelligence that is in some ways as pattern recog..."

"what you can see when you really dig into these things is there's often a lot of what I would call data set overfitting it's not overfitting to the training set but it's overfitting to whatever are th..."

"musical instrument right so that's a mixed success or failure here's some pretty good one a group of people on a on a field playing football that's I would call that a you know a result maybe even A+ ..."

"what we're talking about or here's another I'll just give you one other example of a couple of photographs from my recent vacation and a nice warm tropical look how which I think illustrates ways in w..."

"we put the X and completed and now they've got three in a row right that's that's literally child's play okay you showed this sort of thing though to one of these you know image understanding caption ..."

"one that also motivates I think a lot of really good work on the engineering side and a lot of our interest in the science side is think about robotics and think about what do you have to do to you kn..."

"very much on the same page we both want to know how do you build the kind of intelligence that can control these bodies like the way a human does alright um here's another example of an industry robot..."

"and a half year old and the other ones a one year old so just watch this one and a half year old here doing a popular activity for many kids as a playing hmm you see video up there I'd okay there we g..."

"again Boston Dynamics now has robots that could pick themselves up after that that's really impressive again but all the other stuff to get to that point we don't really know how to do in a robotic se..."

"was able to incorporate it in his plan right there's a moment before that when he's about to reach for it but then he sees this other one right and it's only when he's now exhausted all the other obje..."

"here you've got this this famous Mouse this you can find on the internet under the mouse versus cracker video and what you'll see here over the course of this video is a mouse valiantly and mostly hop..."

"one more video that is really more about science these other ones are you know some of them actually were from scientific experiments but this is one that motivates a lot of the science that I do and ..."

"payoffs in particular suppose we could build a robot that could do what this kid and many other kids and these experiments do just say help you out around the house without having to be programmed or ..."

"intuitive understanding of physical objects in people's goals how do I build a model of that model you have in the head probabilistic programs a little bit more technically our one way to understand t..."

"symbolic representation or symbolic languages for knowledge representation probabilistic inference in generative models to capture uncertainty ambiguity learning from sparse data and in their hierarch..."

"something which is a very mature technology in computer systems and programming languages probabilistic programs I'll just sort of advertise mostly are a way to combine the strengths of all of these a..."

"convergence of a number of different AI tools are happening and when and this will be absolutely necessary for making the kind of architecture that I'm talking about work another key idea which we've ..."

"scratch so what are called game physics engines and in some sense are a set of principles but also hacks from Newtonian mechanics and other areas of physics that allow you to simulate plausible lookin..."

"the model we built does it basically a little bit of probabilistic inference in a game style physics engine it perceives the physical state and imagines a few different possible ways the world could g..."

"it's like to be an objective one of these experience we just did the experiment here the data is all captured on video sort of right okay you could see that sometimes people were very quick other time..."

"right people have there are literally hundreds of studies if not more using looking time measures to study what infants know but only with this paper that we published a few years ago did we have a qu..."

"the naive utility calculus so the idea that there's a basic calculus of cost and benefit you know we take actions which are a little bit costly to achieve goal states which give us some reward that's ..."

"they're up by now alright and notice I was looking at your hands not here but went but what happened is most of the hands were up at the about the time when that gray or the one that - line shot up ok..."

"apply to much more interesting scenes that you haven't really seen much of before so take the scene on the left right where again you see somebody reaching for one of a four by four array of objects b..."

"in a range of scenes I'll just say one last word about learning because everybody wants to know about learning and and the the key thing here and it's definitely part of any picture of AGI but the tho..."

"take now this is what you could call the hard problem of learning if you come to learning from say neural networks or other tools and machine learning right so what makes machine makes most of machine..."

"awesome that more awesome can mean more accurate but it can also mean faster more elegant more transportable to other applications or their tasks more explainable to others maybe just more entertainin..."

"a current PhD student who works partly with me but also with armando salar Lezama and cecil this is kevin Ellis it's an example of what's now I think again a urging exciting area and AI well beyond an..."

"human-like machines so just to end then what I've tried to tell you here is taught first of all identify the ways in which human intelligence goes beyond pattern recognition to really all these activi..."

"maybe even with us or if any one of these other activities of human intelligence excite you I think taking the kind of science-based reverse engineering approach that we're doing and then trying to pu..."

"[Applause] hi there so early in the talk you expressed some skepticism about whether or not industry would get us to understanding human level intelligence it seems that there's a couple of trends tha..."

"think well that's a really good question and it's got several good questions packed into one there right I didn't mean to say I didn't this wasn't meant to say go academia bad industry right what I wa..."

"okay so what when we say what I'm talking about is the technologies which right now industry sees as meeting that specification and what I'm saying is right now I think those that's that's not where t..."

"Google I mean we just spent a few days talking to Google about exactly this issue that this was a talk I prepared partly for that purpose so we wanted to raise those issues and and it's just I mean re..."

"look for and to know when you've found even viable answers so I think that's you know that's the standard kind of reductionist program but it's not that's it's not I also think it's it's not one that ..."

"embedded circuits okay but also maybe most important is the power consumption and again many people have-have have noted this right if you look at the power consumption the power that the brain consum..."

"problem for basically every area of engineering right if you want to if you want to have any kind of robot the power consumption is a key bottleneck same for self-driving cars if we want to build AI w..."

"don't didn't think you were interested in the brain if you want to build the kind of AI were talking about and run it on physical Hardware of any sort and understanding how the brain circuits compute ..."

"I don't know the answer to that question I but I think the I think what we can say is this um individual neurons I mean again this goes back to another reason to study neural circuits um if you look a..."

"innovations in that support current a I was mostly not AI it was the video game industry I'm when I point to the video game engine in your head that's a similar thing that was driven by the video game..."