My view is that Numenta and the HTM theory is acknowledge as a great research field by more and more people everyday. At this point, I think it would be very difficult for someone to just rip off the ideas and get away with it. Being open-source just means that there's evidence everywhere of who actually made certain contribution. Now, an "impure" approach might gain more popularity at certain time if it's more industry-friendly. But as far as I know, Numenta's aim is mainly of research. There will always be people like us who are interested on what's more biologically accurate. It would be fair, however, to have those who benefit comercially from the HTM Theory pay some kind of royalties to Numenta. That ways if other hybrid or impure techniques success, they would be funding research anyway :)
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 4:35 AM, cogmission (David Ray) < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am I just a small person for being concerned and worried that someone may > grab portions of the technology and integrate it with classic ML techniques > and take credit for HTM theory under some renamed hybrid without > acknowledging origins in Numenta? > > Or the possibility that people will just take it over and possibly steer > it in an "impure" (by "impure" I mean take it in a direction that is not > aligned with Numenta's projected trajectory for enhancement) - leading to > "impure" development (development not a product of heavily considered > correspondence with the biology), and therefore misguiding its future? > > I get concerned that the technology will somehow be "compromised" or > "tainted" or have its momentum siphoned off somehow by people taking bits > and pieces and those "pieces" somehow becoming very popular? > > I wonder how Jeff and all of Numenta remains so open - and I'm searching > for a "context" to hold this process in, so that I have a totally inclusive > way of looking at this choice to be open sourced and transparent. Please > help me understand this choice and how Numenta views this? > > Additionally, I feel that this is an important human social experiment and > an avenue for human social growth too. I have never (to my knowledge) seen > a company be this transparent with its process and products. For that > reason, I feel this project is important on so many levels, and there is so > much to learn above and beyond the obvious pursuit of creating man made > intelligence through reverse engineering the neocortex. > > In short: > I wonder how Numenta sees this process and this wonderful experiment > unfolding? Secondly, I wonder how I should "think" about this process so I > hold it in the right context so that my actions represent this community in > the "right" way (the way that will nurture its progress to its fullest > extent)? > > Cheers, > David > > -- > *With kind regards,* > > David Ray > Java Solutions Architect > > *Cortical.io <http://cortical.io/>* > Sponsor of: HTM.java <https://github.com/numenta/htm.java> > > [email protected] > http://cortical.io >
