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I'm a PhD student on the AIMS CDT supervised by Professor Mark van der Wilk in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford.
I research computer models of neural networks. In recent decades, ML research has succeeded in training AI models that are highly intelligent in many ways. But ML research has failed (so far) at developing AI models that can learn as efficiently as humans can learn, in terms of both memory and data requirements.
The ultimate goal of my research is to understand how to design AI models that can learn any task at least as efficiently as a human could learn it. Such an understanding would be useful in practise, and also deepen our scientific understanding of intelligence, which would therefore deepen our understanding of ourselves.
There are major ethical implications of achieving this goal, which I often think about, however ethical considerations are not currently the focus of my research.
Sometimes I think about what I will do after I achieve this goal. Maybe I'll turn to AI for healthcare. Or maybe I'll make musical instruments out of carrots.
| 2025 | "SynDaCaTE: A Synthetic Dataset For Evaluating Part-Whole Hierarchical Inference" · Jake Levi, Mark van der Wilk [ abstract | pdf | poster | tweet ] |
| 2024 | "Welfare Equilibra As A Solution To Stackelberg Self-Play In Non-Coincidental Games" · Jake Levi, Chris Lu, Timon Willi, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Jakob Foerster [ abstract | pdf ] |
| 2025-02-06 | "Parallelisable Recurrent Sequence Models" · OccaMLab x OATML joint-group seminar series [ slides | slides with notes ] |
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| 2025-12-28 | Is the future of AI in good hands? An analysis of 3 Tweets |
| 2025-10-21 | Understanding and resolving my recent wobble in my motivation for research |
| 2025-02-09 | What ADHD means to me |
Besides rock climbing (trad & sport & bouldering), cinema, and playing classical guitar, my major passion is designing HTML websites. If you would like me to design your website, email me at
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