in particular I still can’t really put myself in the head of Friston, Clark, etc. so as to write a version of this that’s in their language and speaks to their perspective.
Just a sidenote, one of my profs is part of the Bayesian CogSci crowd and was fairly frustrated with and critical of both Friston and Clark. We read one of Friston’s papers in our journal club and came away thinking that Friston is reinventing a lot of wheels and using odd terms for known concepts.
For me, this paper by Sam Gershman helped a lot in understanding Friston’s ideas, and this one by Laurence Aitchison and Máté Lengyel was useful, too.
I would say that the generative models are a consortium of thousands of glued-together mini-generative-models
Cool, I like that idea, I previously thought about the models as fairly separated and bulky entities, that sounds much more plausible.
Thanks a lot for the elaboration!
Just a sidenote, one of my profs is part of the Bayesian CogSci crowd and was fairly frustrated with and critical of both Friston and Clark. We read one of Friston’s papers in our journal club and came away thinking that Friston is reinventing a lot of wheels and using odd terms for known concepts.
For me, this paper by Sam Gershman helped a lot in understanding Friston’s ideas, and this one by Laurence Aitchison and Máté Lengyel was useful, too.
Cool, I like that idea, I previously thought about the models as fairly separated and bulky entities, that sounds much more plausible.