Reminder: submissions due next Monday (Oct 11) for the NeurIPS Conference workshop on Physical Reasoning and Inductive Biases for the Real World! We're hoping for contributions from a broad range of fields (ML, physical sciences, robotics, cognitive psychology)! physical-reasoning.github.io

New paper on PsyArXiv: "Partial Mental Simulation Explains Fallacies in Physical Reasoning", by Bonnie Lass, Ph.D. 🇺🇦, Kevin Smith, @Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social, and me. Really excited about this one. psyarxiv.com/y4a8x

Attending #NeurIPS2021 and interested in how to design systems that learn physics for applications like robotics, science, and industry? Then join our workshop tomorrow: Physical Reasoning and Inductive Biases for the Real World!

Can ML solve tough real-world problems at large industry labs, NASA, startups? Join us today to find out! physical-reasoning.github.io Starting Industry Panel at our #NeurIPS2021 workshop on Physical Reasoning and Inductive Biases for the Real World at 1pm PT / 4pm ET / 9pm GMT

This is some great work showing that people use simplified representations of objects for physics + prediction, which leads to "biases" in some tasks, but may be a way of efficiently reasoning about the world. Honored to be a part of it!

Do we judge something to be the cause of nothing happening? Yes - we do it all the time when we reason about physical support! Read how in this new preprint with itsaliang and Tobias Gerstenberg !

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Looking to learn to program or just want to pick up a few new tricks? Why don't you put some roadblocks in your way with the algorithms described in our paper on "(Un)helper functions"!

GAC2: To what extent does the brain simulate the external world? Authors: Kevin Smith,todd gureckis,Marcelo Mattar,Kelsey Allen,Fred Callaway,Ernest Davis,Judy Fan,Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab,Jess Hamrick is [email protected],Wei Ji Ma,Kim Stachenfeld,Joshua Tenenbaum,Tomer Ullman gac.ccneuro.org/gacs-by-year/2…

1:30pm PT - “To what extent does the brain simulate the external world?” Generative Adversarial Collab at #ccneuro22! feat me+Kevin Smith Marcelo Mattar Tomer Ullman Judy Fan Jess Hamrick is [email protected] Kim Stachenfeld Kelsey Allen Fred Callaway Griffiths Computational Cognitive Science Lab Wei Ji Ma Ernest Davis & JTenenbaum!

Hooray, it's officially out now! "An Approximate Representation of Objects Underlies Physical Reasoning" psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2023-… led by Yichen Li, with YingQiao Wang, tal boger, Kevin Smith, Sam Gershman, and me

Want to learn more about how cognitive costs affect strategy choice in physical reasoning? Kevin Smith looks excited to tell you all about it! #CogSci2023

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1/6 How does growing up in a different body affect how people think about the world? Our new paper (tinyurl.com/4uvesabh) with Kevin Smith, @mitcocosci, Plasticity Lab, Prof D Cowie, BOLDkids, studies problem-solving in children and adults born with 0, 1, or 2 hands.