In “On Intelligence”, there is a hand-wavy argument that actions as well as perception can be seen as a sort of prediction. When I read this, it kind of made sense. But afterwards, when I was thinking how I would implement this insight in code, I began to feel a bit unclear about exactly how this would work. I have never seen a clear exposition from Jeff Hawkins or Numenta (his company). This is surprising because I generally find he provides very clear explanations for his ideas.
Does anyone have a clear idea of how actions would work as some kind of prediction? A pointer to something on this would be good also.
Good summary and exposition of the situation.
In “On Intelligence”, there is a hand-wavy argument that actions as well as perception can be seen as a sort of prediction. When I read this, it kind of made sense. But afterwards, when I was thinking how I would implement this insight in code, I began to feel a bit unclear about exactly how this would work. I have never seen a clear exposition from Jeff Hawkins or Numenta (his company). This is surprising because I generally find he provides very clear explanations for his ideas.
Does anyone have a clear idea of how actions would work as some kind of prediction? A pointer to something on this would be good also.
I guess the classic reference would be Planning as Probabilistic Inference, but see also my post here more specifically about the brain. A practical example would be Dileep George’s 2017 Schema Networks paper. Does that answer your question?