Research

Born from research, AI for human memory

Brains, Minds & Machines summer school 2026

Conferences and workshops

August 2026

Brains, Minds & Machines summer school 2026

Gabriel Kreiman leads the Brains, Minds and Machines (BMM) summer school, bringing a cadre of researchers from all over the world to train the next generation of scholars at the intersection of neuroscience and AI.

The most human human: how do you know if you are interacting with humans or algorithms?

Publication

Nature Human Behaviour

August 2026

The most human human: how do you know if you are interacting with humans or algorithms?

Zhang and colleagues publish a systematic and rigorous evaluation of the imitation capabilities of state-of-the-art AI algorithms in multiple vision and language tasks. Turing-Like Tests for Language and Vision Demonstrate a Narrowing Gap Between Humans and AI. Zhang et al, Nature Human Behavior, 2026

Memory is Not Search: Toward Proactive, Lifelong Memory in AI

Publication

May 2026

Memory is Not Search: Toward Proactive, Lifelong Memory in AI

This position paper argues that search is insufficient for memory and that AI systems need distinct mechanisms to proactively recall information from lifelong, multimodal memoromes — pointing to new datasets, benchmarks, and architectures as the way forward.

Stretching beyond the obvious

Publication

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

April 2026

Stretching beyond the obvious

This paper introduces the Stretch-and-Squeeze (SnS) framework to map a neural unit's "invariance landscape," revealing how specific transformations like pose or lighting can change an input without altering the unit's response, thereby bridging the gap between artificial and biological visual perception.

What do people need to remember?

Blog

March 2026

What do people need to remember?

This study collected 1,940 personal memory questions from 134 participants during daily life, revealing the types of information people most commonly struggle to recall and the activities during which these memory needs arise.

Can machines imitate humans?

Publication

Nature Human Behaviour

March 2026

Can machines imitate humans?

This research introduces a methodology to directly compare human and machine output side by side and shows that state-of-the-art AI algorithms can mimic humans surprisingly well across vision and language tasks.

Replay mechanism to mimic human-like memory recall

Publication

TNNLS

February 2025

Replay mechanism to mimic human-like memory recall

Inspired by how biological brains learn, this work introduces novel replay-based algorithms to tackle the problem of continual learning.

How does the brain store and retrieve memories?

Publication

Nature Human Behavior

October 2024

How does the brain store and retrieve memories?

Sparsity of representations emerges as an intriguing algorithm to ameliorate the problem of continual learning.

How spatial and temporal information are encoded in memories

Publication

Cell Reports

November 2023

How spatial and temporal information are encoded in memories

The authors discovered a novel mechanism by which neurons tile temporal space to encode memories.

How sparse representation enables compression of events into memories

Publication

ICLR

March 2023

How sparse representation enables compression of events into memories

Sparsity of representations emerges as an intriguing algorithm to ameliorate the problem of continual learning.