This post asks some questions about the agency of hierarchical action selection. We assume various pieces of HTM / MPF canon, such as a cortical hierarchy. Agency The concept of agency has various meanings in psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and philosophy. The common element is having control over a system, with… Read More »Agency and Hierarchical Action Selection
This post is about a fantastic new paper by Michael R. Ferrier, titled: Toward a Universal Cortical Algorithm: Examining Hierarchical Temporal Memory in Light of Frontal Cortical Function The paper was posted to the NUPIC mailing list and can be found via: http://numenta.org/community-content.html The paper itself… Read More »Toward a Universal Cortical Algorithm: Examining Hierarchical Temporal Memory in Light of Frontal Cortical Function
by David Rawlinson and Gideon Kowadlo The Blog This blog will be written by several people. Other contributors are welcome – send us an email to introduce yourself! The content will be a series of short articles about a set of common architectures for artificial general intelligence (AGI). Specifically,… Read More »Introduction