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Joel is a senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind and visiting professor at King's College London. He obtained his PhD from MIT where he studied computational neuroscience and machine learning with Tomaso Poggio. Joel is interested in reverse engineering human biological and cultural evolution...

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Joel Z. Leibo

Joel is a senior staff research scientist at Google DeepMind and visiting professor at King's College London. He obtained his PhD from MIT where he studied computational neuroscience and machine learning with Tomaso Poggio. Joel is interested in reverse engineering human biological and cultural evolution...

A Guide to the Theory of Appropriateness Papers

This post is a living index of papers in the "theory of appropriateness" sequence. The sequence develops a computational account of normative appropriateness—the idea that much of human cognition and social behavior can be understood as pattern completion over culturally learned expectations of what is appropriate in a given situation....

Societal and technological progress as sewing an ever-growing, ever-changing, patchy, and polychrome quilt

Joel Z. Leibo [1], Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets [1], William A. Cunningham [1, 2], Sébastien Krier [1], Manfred Diaz [3], Simon Osindero [1] [1] Google DeepMind, [2] University of Toronto, [3] Mila Québec AI Institute We published a more academically oriented version of this post on arxiv, available here. Disclaimer: These...

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