Seattle Minds & Machines

Welcome! Seattle Minds & Machines is a talk series focusing on neuroscience and AI based in Seattle. Drawing inspiration from the RLDM conference, we aim to foster interaction and cross-pollination between the related fields of neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI. We organize on a roughly monthly cadence and aim to have one speaker from neuro/cognitive science and one speaker from machine learning / AI. Our sessions are highly interactive and we leave lots of time for discussion both during and after the talks.

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Next seminar

Google Fremont, June 11 2025.

Speakers TBD.

Past talks

  • April 2025
  • Dheeraj Rajagopal (Fastino AI). Scalable Influence and Fact Tracing for Large Language Model Pretraining.
  • David Bell (UW).
  • March 2025
  • Sriyash Poddar (UW) Personalizing RLHF with Variational Preference Learning.
  • Jacob Sacks (UW)
  • February 2025
  • Nathan Lambert (AI^2). An RL Renaissance.

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About the organizers

We are a group of neuroscience and machine learning researchers based in Seattle, WA. Our affiliations include the Allen Insitute for Neuroscience, the University of Washington, OpenMind, and Google DeepMind.