I recently attended the launch symposium of the Thousand Brains Project, hosted by Viviane Clay, Niels Leadholm, Will Warren, and Jeff Hawkins—the visionary behind the Thousand Brains Theory 🧠
The symposium explored their groundbreaking work on this project, delving into their new AI framework, its current capabilities, the roadmap ahead, and ways for the community to get involved!
💭 Why does this matter?
Today's AI systems are narrow, requiring vast amounts of compute to train and deploy increasingly large models. The Thousand Brains Project team is charting a different course, building a general AI framework based in neuroscience and the principles of the Thousand Brains Theory. This framework emphasizes sensorimotor learning—learning through sensing and interacting with the world, much like humans and animals do.
Their current model, 'Monty'—named after Vernon Mountcastle, who discovered the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex—is already showcasing impressive capabilities:
- Learns from minimal data: No need for massive training datasets.
- Requires little to no supervision.
- Supports continuous learning without catastrophic forgetting.
For a deeper dive into Monty's capabilities, check out the documentation linked below 👇.
💡Key Insights from the Thousand Brains Theory:
This theory challenges traditional views of cognition by suggesting that intelligence arises from thousands of independent models (cortical columns) in the neocortex. Each of the ≈150,000 cortical columns in the human brain:
- Operates as a sensorimotor learning system, equipped with its own set of reference frames.
- Uses these reference frames to process streams of sensorimotor inputs and map the relationships between features in the world.
Hearing directly from the team about their pioneering work and the project’s future directions was both inspiring and thought-provoking. It’s clear this research holds transformative potential for building more adaptable, human-like AI systems! 🚀
As Jeff Hawkins aptly summarized during the symposium:
Sensorimotor learning—not today’s AI—will be at the heart of truly intelligent machines.
💫 The Thousand Brains Project is open to everyone and actively welcomes contributors!
Codebase: https://lnkd.in/e-PnQuA6
Documentation - provides a great explanation of the project and how you can contribute: https://lnkd.in/etnmM5Rp
Massive praise to the TBP team for their dedication to advancing the field and for open-sourcing this incredible initiative. Their work is paving the way for a new era of neuroscience-inspired AI, and it’s exciting to see the community invited to be a part of it!
Christmas has come early this year! ☃️
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🚀 The Open-Source Launch Symposium video is here!
Watch Jeff Hawkins’ overview of how sensorimotor learning, reference frames will unlock AI & robotics. 🌟 Dive into talks, roadmap, and community contributions with Dr. Viviane Clay and Niels Leadholm
Watch now: https://lnkd.in/gW6Q6YfA
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