Inside the Basis-Princeton postdoc fellowship on abstraction and robot planning
tomssilver · x · 2026-09-17
The Basis Research Institute and Princeton's Robot Planning and Learning group led by Tom Silver offer a joint postdoc fellowship on the MARA project — building AI systems that actively discover abstract world models and reason with them. Basis is a nonprofit applied AI research organization; Silver is a Princeton assistant professor with a PhD from MIT advised by Leslie Kaelbling and Josh Tenenbaum.
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