Introduction

Hello all!

I just wanted to share a project I’ve been working on for some time. I cross-posted this over at the TBT forum and the old HTM forum since I’m not sure where the conversation is these days.

Now let’s get to it…

I was introduced to HTM around 2019 and started following the forums, watched the videos created by the great early HTM communicator Matt Taylor, and read the Numenta papers. I was always very excited by the very different approach to AI and modeling of the cortical computation. So much so that I partnered with an...

We’ve defined a class of algorithms called Discrete Cortical Circuits (DCC). These algorithms are modeled or inspired from the microcircuits of the brain’s cortical column. With some deliberate choices to discretize many aspects of the network, while also focusing on the assembly of neurons into a “block” or “group” as a fundamental unit of computation, DCCs become very unlike classical artifical neural networks.





The main distinguishing characteristics of DCCs are:


Neuron activation outputs are binary instead of a continuous function.<...