Bridging the gap between Minds & Machines

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing · Advanced ·📰 AI News & Updates ·1mo ago

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Michal Irani (Weizmann Institute) https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/michal-irani-weizmann-institute-2026-06-10 Topics in Intelligence: World Models and Social Reasoning In this talk I will present my vision of how combining the power of Brains & Deep-Networks (DNNs) can lead to significant breakthroughs in both domains and potentially bridge the gap between Brains & Machines. I will show how combining the power of Multiple Brains (“the Wisdom of a Crowd of Brains”) may lead to new breakthrough discoveries in Brain-Science, allow mapping of information between different brains (with NO shared data), and lead to new ways of training and interpreting artificial DNNs.

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Michal Irani (Weizmann Institute) https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/michal-irani-weizmann-institute-2026-06-10 Topics in Intelligence: World Models and Social Reasoning In this talk I will present my vision of how combining the power of Brains & Deep-Networks (DNNs) can lead to significant breakthroughs in both domains and potentially bridge the gap between Brains & Machines. I will show how combining the power of Multiple Brains (“the Wisdom of a Crowd of Brains”) may lead to new breakthrough discoveries in Brain-Science, allow mapping of information between different brains (with NO shared data), and lead to new ways of training and interpreting artificial DNNs.

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