Cheers, Subutai. Vinh,
On NLP: cortical.io and NuPIC are already able to do some really interesting things, but I believe this will really open up when we combine cortical.io on real textual streams with the L4-L3 Temporal Pooling and hierarchy. On Video: the Deep Learning guys have made some pretty dramatic progress on this recently - they seem to be using a type of multi-resolution rolled-out hierarchy and a sort of saccading viewport. This is a great example of how the slow brain deals with a million channels of fast-changing input data streams. The neocortex learns which information to throw away and still keep so much structure that it can do vision which dedicated computer systems cannot match. It seems likely to me that we won't require hardware to achieve similar feats with HTM; it can be done with a software design built from the outset with parallelism and concurrency, and aggressively exploiting sparsity (perhaps like the one I'm working on ;). Regards, Fergal Byrne On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Subutai Ahmad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Fergal Byrne <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> What they say, and perhaps it's worth thinking about, is that we would >> gain credibility if we could demonstrate a "killer application" (what Ben >> Goertzel calls the "AGI Sputnik moment") of HTM which shows it solving a >> problem nobody else can even attempt to solve. For that, I believe, we'll >> need the full sensorimotor stack and hierarchy, which we will have in the >> next few months. >> >> Could I ask people to have a think about this and possibly bounce around >> ideas? We could schedule a round-table session during the hackathon next >> month and see if there's an application area to focus on in this regard. >> The most immediate candidates I can see right now are cortical.io (aka >> CEPT) for NLP and the Geospatial Encoder. >> > > Hi Fergal, > > This is a really nice idea. I'm sure Jeff will be happy to participate as > well. Perhaps it is a discussion we can carry on during office hours as > well. > > --Subutai > -- Fergal Byrne, Brenter IT http://inbits.com - Better Living through Thoughtful Technology http://ie.linkedin.com/in/fergbyrne/ - https://github.com/fergalbyrne Founder of Clortex: HTM in Clojure - https://github.com/nupic-community/clortex Author, Real Machine Intelligence with Clortex and NuPIC Read for free or buy the book at https://leanpub.com/realsmartmachines Speaking on Clortex and HTM/CLA at euroClojure Krakow, June 2014: http://euroclojure.com/2014/ and at LambdaJam Chicago, July 2014: http://www.lambdajam.com e:[email protected] t:+353 83 4214179 Join the quest for Machine Intelligence at http://numenta.org Formerly of Adnet [email protected] http://www.adnet.ie
