Push Singh is a Ph.D. student in the department of computer science and electrical engineering at MIT. His research goal is to understand how minds work, so that he can construct a machine that thinks. He is building a "unified theory of non-unified theories of cognition" so that he can draw on a diversity of ideas to help him in his purpose.

Singh is opposed to the popular idea that machines that see, hear, move about, and think can be built by the simple application of a single, theoretically neat but conceptually impoverished idea like feedforward neural networks, statistical estimation, or first-order predicate calculus. He believes that the artificial intelligence systems of the future will contain many different internal architectures, each designed to learn to solve certain kinds of problems. Each architecture will have its own set of interpreters, languages, libraries, and other resources for expressing and managing the kinds of processes, representations, and knowledge needed to deal with those problems. Only such extensive diversity will provide the ability to cope with the vast range of situations that will appear both in the world and in the minds of the systems themselves.

His advisor and mentor is Marvin Minksy, whom he assists in teaching a course based upon Minksy's book The Society of Mind.