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Research Vision

Our goal is to bring together the "Best Of Neuroscience and AI":

• What do we mean by the best of neuroscience? We look at the brain through the lens of computational cognitive neuroscience: we view the brain as the best known general-purpose information-processor, problem-solver, and learner. Many deep, beautiful, and insightful theories of brain function have been proposed, but none has proven effective at scale.
• What do we mean by the best of AI? Many recent advancements in AI and machine learning are powered by deep neural networks. Machine learning and AI systems just seem to work at scale even if their creators don't fully understand and can't fully control them.

We aim to meet in the middle by

• reverse-engineering principles of efficient inference and learning in the brain
• deriving theories for deep learning that work at scale