Brenden Lake

@LakeBrenden

Incoming Associate Professor of Computer Science and Psychology @ Princeton. Posts are my views only

Manhattan, NY

Joined June 2018

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Brenden Lake@LakeBrenden · Jun 12

I'm joining Princeton as an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Psychology this fall! Princeton is ambitiously investing in AI and Natural & Artificial Minds, and I'm excited for my lab to contribute. Recruiting postdocs and Ph.D. students in CS and Psychology — join us!

LakeBrenden's tweet image. I'm joining Princeton as an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Psychology this fall! Princeton is ambitiously investing in AI and Natural &amp; Artificial Minds, and I'm excited for my lab to contribute. Recruiting postdocs and Ph.D. students in CS and Psychology — join us!

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Brenden Lake@LakeBrenden · Jul 22

This is amazing software for running behavioral studies that the Gureckis lab has been working hard on, and is a successor to the popular psiTurk. Check it out!

ttodd gureckis@todd_gureckis · Jul 21

Today we open-sourced a new project for developing behavioral experiments online. It is called Smile. Announcement of v0.1.0: todd.gureckislab.org/2025/07/22/s... Smile has been used internally in my lab for several years and has substantially increased our productivity.

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Yulu Qin@yulu_qin · Jul 21

Does vision training change how language is represented and used in meaningful ways?🤔 The answer is a nuanced yes! Comparing VLM-LM minimal pairs, we find that while the taxonomic organization of the lexicon is similar, VLMs are better at _deploying_ this knowledge. [1/9]

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Noga Zaslavsky@NogaZaslavsky · Jul 21

📢 I'm looking for a postdoc to join my lab at NYU! Come work with me on a principled, theory-driven approach to studying language, learning, and reasoning, in humans and AI agents. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/170656 And come chat with me at #CogSci2025 if interested!

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Marcel Binz@marcel_binz · Jul 2

Excited to see our Centaur project out in @Nature. TL;DR: Centaur is a computational model that predicts and simulates human behavior for any experiment described in natural language.

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Marcelo Mattar@marcelomattar · Jul 2

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

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xuan (ɕɥɛn / sh-yen)@xuanalogue · Jun 30

At NUS, I'll be starting the Cooperative Systems & Intelligence (CoSI) lab to scale rational approaches to cooperative AI that are safe+reliable by design - for both individual AI assistance & the cooperative infrastructure we need for an increasingly automated future.

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TTIC@TTIC_Connect · Jun 27

We’re proud to announce three new tenure-track assistant professors joining TTIC in Fall 2026: Yossi Gandelsman (@YGandelsman), Will Merrill (@lambdaviking), and Nick Tomlin (@NickATomlin). Meet them here: buff.ly/JH1DFtT

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Chaz Firestone@chazfirestone · Jun 25

AI in the wild? This tray tissue I was given at a restaurant is full of errors and hallucinations…!

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Umang Bhatt@umangsbhatt · May 15

📣 Life update: I'm joining the University of Cambridge this fall as an Assistant Professor and as a Fellow in Computer Science at @Kings_College. Excited to (re)join the @Cambridge_Uni community!

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Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)@the_IAS · Jun 20

🧠 Does AI have a role to play in pure mathematics—the kind still worked out on blackboards over decades? To interrogate this question, @nytimes spoke to IAS scholars from diverse disciplinary perspectives, including @patrickshafto and @alondra: nytimes.com/2025/06/19/sci…

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Ilia Sucholutsky@sucholutsky · Jun 20

Thrilled to announce I’ll be joining @PurdueCS as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2026! My lab will work on AI thought partners, machines that think with people rather than instead of people – I'll be recruiting PhD students this upcoming cycle so reach out & apply if interested!

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Brenden Lake@LakeBrenden · Jun 19

I hope this state of affairs changes. the exchanges between academia and industry were wonderful and vibrant, before the doors closed.

DDavid Pfau@pfau · Jun 19

From about 2013-2022, the highest impact thing you could do for AI in the tech industry was publish in academic venues. You didn't have to choose between climbing the ladder and doing open science. Now that world is gone, and I'm still not sure how to navigate this new world.

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Brenden Lake@LakeBrenden · Jun 13

Congrats to all winners and whoohoo @NYUPsych !! 🎉🎉 @BlancoElorrieta @davidpoeppel

SSNL Annual Meeting@SNLmtg · Jun 13

Join us in congratulating our Award Recipients: Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, David Poeppel, and Jacob Momsen! 👏 #SNL2025 Learn more here: 2025.neurolang.org/awards-informa…

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Brenden Lake@LakeBrenden · Jun 13

Disturbing when ChatGPT mixes with mental health issues. Continuing to expand context for chats isn’t always for the better. Hope that OpenAI and others are working hard on this issue. nytimes.com/2025/06/13/tec…

LakeBrenden's tweet card. Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

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Mona Jalal @ cvpr2025@MonaJalal_ · Jun 12

So impressed by Professor @orussakovsky starting her keynote talk by highlighting her research team. We need more of this in our community @WiCVworkshop @CVPR @Princeton @PrincetonCS #wicv #CVPR2025

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