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'What we were trying to do in this work is to explain how perception can be so much richer than just attaching semantic labels on parts of an image, and to explore the question of how do we see all of the physical world,' says Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of computational cognitive science and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBMM).
Tenenbaum's scientific work currently focuses on two areas: describing the structure, content and development of people's common sense theories, especially intuitive physics and intuitive psychology, and understanding how people are able to learn and generalize new concepts, models, theories and tasks from very few examples, a concept known as "one-shot learning.""Eulogy". December 8, 2020.
Tenenbaum's scientific work currently focuses on two areas: describing the structure, content and development of people's common sense theories, especially intuitive physics and intuitive psychology, and understanding how people are able to learn and generalize new concepts, models, theories and tasks from very few examples, a concept known as "one-shot learning.""Eulogy". December 8, 2020.
Meanwhile, his son Josh Tenenbaum, PhD '98, has followed his father's footsteps to MIT. He's an assistant professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science.
For instance, in 2015 he and two other researchers created computer programs capable of learning to recognize new handwritten characters, as well as certain objects in images, after seeing just a few examples. This is important because the best machine-learning programs typically require huge quantities of training data.
The test devised by Tenenbaum is important, says Kun Zhang, an assistant professor who works on causal inference and machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University, because it provides a good way to measure causal understanding, albeit in a very limited setting.
