Alex Alvarez
I'm an undergrad researcher at the Brain Networks Lab, Cognitive Science Lab and Bolaños Lab at Texas A&M University. In the past I built and sold some companies but at the moment I'm focusing on AI research. I'm especially interested in foundational principles of intelligence and learning apparent in AI and neuroscience.
I came to America when I was eight years old as a political refugee from Cuba. I'd like to one day provide Cuban students with the same education and resources that I had access to in America. I'm always looking to chat with people who think differently caalvarez [at] mgh [dot] harvard [dot] edu
News
My first paper has been accepted into the NeurIPS Workshop on Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations!Essay on Fernando Pessoa and consciousness.
My app (and BNL) on the news!
Currently on my mind:
Do LLMs exhibit the "Hally Berry Neuron"? How do neural networks use waves to represent information? Will open-endedness play a significant role in the future of intelligence? Is addiction fundamental to all intelligent agents? Can we train ML models in picbreeder-like ways? How do foundation models represent their opinion? Research through the eyes of design (designing information). Language models reveal the geometry of information!
Previously on my mind:
(Projects, research, apps, and sundries)
How does the brain calculate visual saliency? Why do we sometimes vote against our economic self-interest? How did eyes evolve? Can we evolve fashion? Are LLMs conscious? Can we make a virtual real estate social media app? Is spectral bias correlated to saddle point drops in the loss landscape? Can we evolve sounds? How does delay affect complex systems? How does the brain compute physical reasoning? Why are research papers so hard to read? Can AI emulate professors? Why can't I find a website to interactively visualize distribution parameters? How can an algorithm evolve? How do you make a SaaS product for fast food chains? What does the C. Ellegans connectome look like on a 3d plane?