[HN Gopher] How to Pursue a Career in Brain-Based AI
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       How to Pursue a Career in Brain-Based AI
        
       Author : takiwatanga
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2022-04-11 19:35 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (numenta.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (numenta.com)
        
       | Mageek wrote:
       | This is an area that a lot of people are probably interested in.
       | We still don't really have practical robots, self-driving cars,
       | and personal assistants, and some sort of general context-
       | sensitive learning intelligence breakthrough is needed to get us
       | there. Traditional machine learning and deep learning have not
       | yet been sufficient to get us there, and brain-based approaches
       | might. It would be good to hear about more of the companies
       | pursuing this sort of thing (maybe with less of a focus on brains
       | and more of a focus on general understanding), and how to
       | proactively contribute beyond the numenta-specific content here.
       | Its a start though!
        
       | exdsq wrote:
       | Was hoping for something a little deeper than "Personal
       | projects", "blog", "read books", and "go to relevant
       | conferences". But then I noticed it was written by a content
       | marketer and not a 'Brain-Based AI' engineer.
       | 
       | I wonder how many members of their team have a background similar
       | to what this article suggests (rather than PhDs and MScs in the
       | field).
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       | Edit: Didn't have to wonder too long, they're hiring interns and
       | would like PhD students with a history of publishing at relevant
       | conferences. So they themselves wouldn't hire an intern based on
       | their own advice!
        
       | codelord wrote:
       | As a machine learning researcher for over a decade I clicked to
       | understand what "brain-based AI" is. I learned it's a made-up
       | term by the author to maximize click-through rate. Pass.
        
         | SubiculumCode wrote:
         | classic numenta TM
        
       | mcbuilder wrote:
       | A lot of computational neuroscience guys are in DL now, myself
       | included. Hard to do basic research when you're not funded, and
       | there is this new shiny thing with million dollar compute.
        
       | hardpass1234567 wrote:
        
       | JonChesterfield wrote:
       | There's a company based in Switzerland doing this sort of thing.
       | Unfortunately I've forgotten the name, was spun out of some
       | academic research.
        
       | lootsauce wrote:
       | Saw Jeff Hawkins talk at Streangeloop years ago, and I thought
       | his book was brilliant. What has this company ever accomplished
       | in machine learning/ai? I have seen a few videos on YouTube
       | teaching about HMT theory but it's not clear that this theory
       | even results in anything that is even marginally useful. What am
       | I missing?
        
         | hprotagonist wrote:
         | > What am I missing?
         | 
         | Not much!
        
           | Mageek wrote:
           | An HTM layer requires far more parameters than a traditional
           | deep neural network, on the order of gigabytes for one or two
           | basic HTM layers. A cortical column is going to have many
           | such layers, and a 1000-brains model will have many
           | (thousands?) of cortical columns. In my opinion, the
           | underlying idea is fantastic but the practical aspects of
           | implementing it are daunting.
        
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