Dr. Tomaso A. Poggio is the Eugene McDermott professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and director of the Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT and director of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines multi-institutional collaboration headquartered at the McGovern Institute from 2013-2025 when it ended.
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Brains, Minds, and Machines [book epilogue]
The book Brains, Minds and Machines—originally published in Italian, going to appear in English published by MIT Press—has two authors: Marco Magrini and Tomaso Poggio. One is accustomed to working and creating with the signs of the alphabet; the other with the signs of mathematics. Since the mathematician among us has personally witnessed the evolution of artificial intelligence over the past fifty years—and therefore has stories worth telling—the closing pages have been written, quite naturally, in the first person. This epilogue reflects not only two complementary ways of seeing the world, but also the intersection of narrative and theory that…