The MIT Siegel Family Quest for Intelligence (SQI) is a community of scientists, engineers, faculty, students, staff, and supporters that aim to understand intelligence – how brains produce it and how it can be replicated in artificial systems.  Together, we approach intelligence as a single grand challenge requiring the organized, collaborative efforts of science, engineering, the humanities, and beyond.  To achieve this vision, scientific theories of natural intelligence must be developed, computational models must be created, and these models must be compared against the capabilities and neural mechanisms of natural intelligence and tested on real-world problems. 

The Embodied Intelligence Mission at SQI broadly addresses how we perceive the world around us and integrate this information to plan and complete tasks. Scientific goals include research into how perception, planning, and action interface, how we learn efficiently from small data sets and the creation of behavioral benchmark tasks. Engineering goals include task-based benchmarks derived from natural intelligence and methods for composing artificial systems to achieve those tasks.

PIs Nancy Kanwisher and Leslie Kaelbling will present an update on the latest research being done in the Embodied Intelligence Mission on Tuesday, March 31st at 4:00 PM in 45-792.