MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence

12/01/2025

Last week, we formally changed our name to the MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence — we are so grateful to the Siegel Family Endowment for their long-standing support for our work.

04/20/2025

A new study questions the longstanding view that the visual system is divided into two pathways, one for object-recognition and the other for spatial tasks. Using computational vision models, MIT researchers found the ventral visual stream, may not be exclusively optimized for object recognition.

08/18/2021

Engineering Team Lead
We are looking for an Engineering Team Lead! Want to lead a team building and maintaining computational platforms designed to benchmark cutting edge models of natural intelligence? The Engineering Team Lead will work closely with various faculty and researchers engaged in Quest research missions, guiding the engineering team to rapidly develop, iterate, and deploy solutions. You can find more information about this position, as well as how to apply, by visiting the full posting at here: https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_mit/external/jobDetails/jobDetail.html?jobPostId=21442&localeCode=en-us

06/10/2021

“We show it can be done much faster by baking in some knowledge of physics, which allows the robot to use gradient-based planning algorithms to learn,” says MIT-IBM Watson AI LAb's Chuang Gan. https://bit.ly/3x5e4fw

06/03/2021

TOMORROW, 12 pm ET! Don't miss "Natural Language Processing for All," on extending machine translation and other tools to more of the world’s 7,000 languages. With MIT's Jacob Andreas, Carnegie Mellon's Emma Strubell, IBM's Yoon Kim and Brown's Ellie Pavlick. Moderated by MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab Co-director AudeOliva. REGISTER: bit.ly/2RtHN2x

05/25/2021

The MIT professor who turned the coronavirus spike protein into music now has a sequel: Protein Antibody in E Minor. “It’s a hopeful piece as we enter this new phase in the pandemic,” says MIT's Markus Buehler who is working with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab to design never before seen proteins with the help of AI. bit.ly/3wrIjNq MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

MIT Professor Markus Buehler has translated the coronavirus antibody protein into music. "Protein Antibody in E Minor" was performed this spring by South Korea's Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra.

05/24/2021

Some software companies are building AI into their platforms to help programmers generate and analyze code despite the security risks. Researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab are looking for ways to find and fix the bugs. https://bit.ly/33pnllU via WIRED

Programs such as GPT-3 can compose convincing text. Some people are using the tool to automate software development and hunt for bugs.

05/19/2021

"The vision of this initiative is: AI for everyone else — with an emphasis on equity, access, and responsible empowerment.” A new cross-disciplinary research initiative at MIT, called Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE), aims to promote the understanding and use of AI across all segments of society. https://bit.ly/3bEOkyd MIT Open Learning MIT Schwarzman College of Computing MIT Media Lab

A new cross-disciplinary research initiative at MIT aims to promote the understanding and use of AI across all segments of society. The effort, called Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE), will develop new teaching approaches and tools to engage learners in settings from preK-...