I am hiring a post doc at UAlberta, affiliated with Amii! We study language processing in the brain using LLMs and neuroimaging. Looking for someone with experience with ideally both neuroimaging and LLMs, or a willingness to learn. Email me with Qs apps.ualberta.ca/careers/post...

Alona Fyshe @alonaf.bsky.social on the BabyLM Challenge, a competition that trains language models (LMs) on smaller datasets, more akin to how a baby learns, in search of solutions to some of the major challenges of today’s LLMs. #NeuroAI #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/the-...

Did you know the famous man -> woman king -> queen analogy geometry in Mikolov et al (2013) was actually described in a 1973 paper by Rumelhart and Abrahamson? Thanks to the @jurafsky.bsky.social and Martin book for the reference!

Every year at the end of the semester, I ask the students in my Psych of Language class to create memes about what they've learned. They then vote for their favorites. Here's the winner about how the idea of a universal grammar is no longer as compelling as it once seemed. 1/5

Our ICLR poster is Saturday Morning (Hall 3 + Hall 2B #63)! We (myself with Cory Efird, Alex Murphy and Joel Zylberberg) are excited to share our work searching for Shared Decodable Concepts in the human brain. We used the Natural Scenes Dataset to find the concepts that most drive brain activity…

Wonderful to see this recognition of Rich's contribution to AI and computing! Rich maintains the strong founding connections between cognition and AI, showing that studying intelligence can help us build intelligence. www.amii.ca/updates-insi...

Friday 12th January is the deadline to apply for our Assistant Professor in AI + Biological Cognition. Details below: careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...

We are hiring at UAlberta: Assistant professor in AI + Biological Cognition.  We are looking for a candidate who can play equally well in the AI and Neurosci fields, and contribute to our knowledge of how AI and neuroscience relate! www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/... Happy to field Qs by email