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Dad · Husband · Associate Professor of Computational Psychiatry at the University of Montreal · PI of the Precision Psychiatry and Social Physiology team at CHU Ste Justine · Researcher in Social Neuro AI at https://Mila.Quebec AI Institute · Co-founder of 2 nonprofit organization: ALIUS (https://aliusresearch.org) & HackYourResearch (https://hyr.science) · He/Him
Topics: #CogSci, #Consciousness, Social #Neuroscience, #Psychiatry, #SysBio, #NeuroAI, #SciML, #OpenScience, #Commons
Interested in joining Mila's research community? Our annual supervision request process for new Mila students is starting this Sunday October 15, 2023.
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🧑💻🥱 Are you feeling exhausted after endless Zoom meetings? 🤯 Our recent study, spearheaded by Ruth Feldman's lab on inter-brain synchronization during virtual conferences, might hold the key to understanding the ever-pervasive #ZoomFatigue phenomenon. 🤔 Watch my small CTV News interview to find out more! 📺 https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2613933
Freshly out: "A Novel Model for Novelty: Modeling the Emergence of Innovation from Cumulative #Culture" https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-28719-0_16
— Kudos to Natalie Kastel for her first work with our Precision Psychiatry and Social Physiology team! — She will soon start a PhD with us, exploring Social #NeuroAI in #Multiagent Systems... 🚀
👉 "Missing links in #AI governance"
📘 New book by Mila & UNESCO, #OpenAccess in both English & French: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000384787
🌐 Live discussion with Yoshua Bengio & Kate Crawford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q2MXh1LY3o
New paper: Restoring the missing person to personalized medicine and precision psychiatry
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1041433/full
> We review the limitations of precision #psychiatry arguing that it cannot reach its goal if it does not include core elements of the processes that give rise to psychopathological states, which include the agency and experience of the person.
Bernard Baars has a nice #podcast about #consciousness research and this episode on #AI is particularly interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUHj84ZZDlM
It connects well with our recent paper « Multilevel development of cognitive abilities in an artificial neural network »: https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2201304119
Excited to present with JP Changeux this work during the IBM Research’s symposium « Systems Neuroscience Approach to General Intelligence (SynAGI) » next month at AAAI: https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group_subpage.php?id=11048
@dingemansemark @andreasliesenfeld @marlourasenberg @saulalbert @abebab @cdutilhnovaes @fusaroli @davidschlangen @LizStokoe Congratulations for the piece! I can’t agree more, and even feel a bit sad to not have had the opportunity to contribute nor being cited. For >10 years I have been trying to defend this point (not always well received on top), and even made a short movie in 2011 that ends by a figure-ground reversal (see figure): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PPbH6CMw2bU ;)
2023 offers us a new blank page, and I hope we will all find the inspiration to write beautifully on it. My new year resolution will be to act more locally, while thinking globally. Being less attracted by social media, I may disconnect and focus on writing. Just got invited to become writer for PsychologyToday.com, and I will take this occasion to actually start my first book! Let’s see how it goes… 🙂
Again, all my warmest wishes for the new year! (3/3)
I cannot say enough how grateful I am to my family, especially Marina and our little Anouk who fill my life with meaning and love, but also my friends and colleagues, especially all the members of my lab, who motivate me every day to explore knowledge and try to give back to society. (2/3)
Thanks for all your birthday messages. Wishing to all of you a wonderful new year, full of wonder and serenity to live every moment, plenty of strength and lucidity to achieve your dreams, and, of course, good health!
2022 has been full of challenges, with many losses, struggles, again a huge load of uncertainty… it reminds us how we cannot escape reality, and thus must enjoy all the bright aspects of Life and cease the good moments. (1/3)
@PessoaBrain @ShahabBakht @roydanroy
My guess is that for transformer models, they are changing their attention based on the context, and thus the "attention weights" take the continuity of the "synaptic weights", and given the depth of those architectures, it allows such sort of complex learning on the fly. Would be curious how it works for RNN. I suspect that the state of the RNN play a similar storage of constrains but this looks harder to reverse engineer.
It's the fruit of a 6-year collaboration between the Institut Pasteur and the Hopital Robert Debre in Paris,
through the SoNeTAA platform (Social Neuroscience of Therapeutic Approaches of Autism).
Note: I started SoNeTAA in a closet of the psychiatry department!
Cortico-Cerebellar Neurodynamics during Social Interaction in #Autism https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4305310
— Our last preprint of 2022 with both high temporal and spatial resolution of neural dynamics during social interaction by combining real-time human-avatar interaction, high-density EEG, and sources reconstruction!
👋 Hey, #cogsci & #philosophy colleagues into #consciousness research! Does anyone get counter-arguments to the illusionist point made by Graziano in his Attention Schema Theory?
Of course, a different one than “I know I have an experience because, Dude, I’m experiencing it right now” ;)
— Source: Toward a standard model of consciousness: Reconciling the attention schema, global workspace, higher-order thought, and illusionist theories https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31556341/
"Just because a model correlates with brain and behaviour data, it is not sufficient for us to infer that the model is performing cognition: correlation does not imply cognition." 1/2
Quote from @olivia Guest and @andrea E. Martin (2021) “On Logical Inference over Brains, Behaviour, and Artificial Neural Networks." https://psyarxiv.com/tbmcg/
Just published in JOSS: 'PyNM: a Lightweight Python implementation of Normative Modeling' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.04321
"If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes."
Nathalie Robin
#Quotes #EmotionalIntelligence
@ShahabBakht Congratulations! Happy to see growing so nicely the NeuroAI family in Montreal :)