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You Measured FLOPs and Found Savings of Up to Eight Orders of Magnitude, What Does This Unlock? #ai

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Sep 2

🚨 @vivianeclay.bsky.social responds to “You Measured FLOPs and Found Savings of up to Eight Orders of Magnitude, What Does This Unlock?”

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#AI #MachineLearning

Hands-On Intelligence: Why the Future of AI Moves Like a Curious Toddler, Not a Supercomputer

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Aug 21

"As the AI field increasingly confronts the diminishing returns of simply scaling up existing approaches, where each new breakthrough requires exponentially more data, compute, and energy, biological insights like those underlying Monty offer a different path forward."

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Aug 21

"Monty embodies a shift from the passive data consumption that has defined modern machine learning to the active, exploratory intelligence that characterizes living beings."

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Aug 21

I just came across this excellent blog post about the recent results we published about the capabilities of the new type of AI we are building (no deep learning!) at the @thousandbrains.org 🤖 🧠: gregrobison.medium.com/hands-on-int...

“We are neural beings. Our brains take their input from the rest of our bodies. What our bodies are like and how they function in the world…

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Tristan Slominski @tristanls.bsky.social · Aug 21

Are you a software developer who wants to work on AI but doesn't have the classic Machine Learning / LLM / deep neural network experience? Then, I'm looking for you...

I'm looking for traditional software engineers to build our sensorimotor intelligence platform.

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As a software engineer on the Thousand Brains Project, you will shape our open-source code base to make it accessible to a large research community. Additionally, you will write code and maintain infr...

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Aug 20

Great blog post about the importance of structured representations for intelligence and spatial navigation mechanisms being generalized to navigate our mental models of the world.

Greg Robison @gregrobison.bsky.social · Aug 19

Where intelligence begins with maps, dive deep into how ancient navigation evolved into AI's spatial intelligence. From brain's internal GPS to @thousandbrains.org Monty's innovation, discover how reference frames change our understanding of cognition and AI: gregrobison.medium.com/mapping-real...

Mapping Reality: From Ancient Navigation to AI’s Spatial Innovation

“We assert that the central office itself is far more like a map control room than it is like an old-fashioned telephone exchange. The…

What Neuroscience Insight was Non-Negotiable in the Design of Monty? #sensorimotorai #ai

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Aug 14

🚨 @cortical-canonical.bsky.social responds: What Neuroscience Insight was Non-Negotiable in the Design of Monty?

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Read the paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494
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#AI #Neuroscience #SensorimotorAI

Learning to Forget: Why Catastrophic Memory Loss Is AI’s Most Expensive Problem

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Aug 13

Recommend this blog post! "These results suggest that the solution to catastrophic forgetting is rethinking how artificial systems learn, moving from monolithic, globally-optimized networks toward modular, locally-adaptive architectures that mirror the brain’s evolved approach to lifelong learning."

Greg Robison @gregrobison.bsky.social · Aug 5

What is catastrophic forgetting? Why can humans remember calculus and linear algebra, but AI loses everything? Dive into this paradox and learn how @thousandbrains.org is tackling one of the most expensive problems in artificial intelligence: gregrobison.medium.com/learning-to-...

“The art of remembering is the art of thinking.”

Active Learning Machines: What Thousand Brains Theory and Piaget Reveal About True Intelligence

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Jul 9

Many people think of the brain as a hierarchical system, and in many ways it is. But there is also a lot of non-hierarchical processing going on. Check out this pre-print where we review and propose functional roles for the different long-range connections in the neocortex 🧠

Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Jul 9

New paper dropped! “Hierarchy or Heterarchy? A Theory of Long-Range Connections for the Sensorimotor Brain” The Thousand Brains Theory explains the cortex’s non-hierarchical connections, and why they matter for building machine intelligence.

Read it now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05888

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Jul 8

Super excited to share our new paper! We spent the past years building an alternative AI approach, and now we demonstrate a whole range of advantages. Robust object & pose detection, generalization, data and compute efficient training, continual learning, shape bias, intelligent policies, and more!🦾

Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Jul 8

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The first paper: “Thousand-Brains Systems: Sensorimotor Intelligence for Rapid, Robust Learning & Inference”, is out now: arxiv.org/abs/2507.04494. It showcases our first working system, codename Monty.

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Jun 24

I just read this great blog post about the lack of sensorimotor learning in current AI and how Piaget's theories, neuroscience, and the TBT outline a better path. This resonated a lot with me as I spent years of my PhD trying to make exactly that point :) gregrobison.medium.com/active-learn...

“To understand the development of knowledge we must start with an idea which seems central to me — the idea of an operation. Knowledge is…

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · May 14

As always, really cool work @hardmaru.bsky.social and beautifully visualized on top of that!

2025/04 - TBP Positive Impact

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Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Apr 4

🚀 New video: @vivianeclay.bsky.social presents the Future Applications & Positive Impacts of Monty

We don’t claim to predict the future - but we do know what Monty will be capable of when we hit each milestone.

Watch here 👉 youtu.be/Iap_sq1_BzE

AI Isn’t Intelligent—Here’s What’s Missing | Jeff Hawkins (Ep. 14)

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Mar 28

Great interview with Jeff about the significant differences between our intelligence 🧠 and deep learning. Have a listen if you want to know how we could build machines based on how the brain actually works and how this will shape the future of AI 🤖

Baratunde @baratunde.com · Mar 25

Al isn't actually intelligent and works nothing like our beautiful brains. The race against China is weak framing compared to creating super intelligence. Jeff Hawkins of @thousandbrains.org and @numentaofficial.bsky.social go deep on @lifewithmachines.bsky.social

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Feb 20

[ 🌍 Remote work is possible. This is not an entry-level position. This is not a researcher position.]

Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Feb 20

If you want to have a peek at how it is working at the Thousand Brains Project , check out some of the pictures from our recent team retreat thousandbrains.org/2025-02-tbp-... 🌴 😊

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Feb 20

This is a great chance to be part of an incredibly unique and exciting project building a fundamentally new type of AI based on how the brain works 🧠 🤖

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Feb 20

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Join our awesome @thousandbrains.org team to build the future of machine intelligence! 🚀
💻 We're looking for a software engineer to support our research team and open-source community thousandbrains.org/company/care...

As a software engineer on the Thousand Brains Project, you will shape our open-source code base to make it accessible to a large research community. Additionally, you will write code and maintain infr...

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Feb 20

[ 🌍 Remote work is possible. This is not an entry-level position. This is not a researcher position.]

Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Feb 20

If you want to have a peek at how it is working at the Thousand Brains Project , check out some of the pictures from our recent team retreat thousandbrains.org/2025-02-tbp-... 🌴 😊

2025-02 TBP Retreat | Thousand Brains Project

TBP Retreat February, 2025 The team spent a week together undertaking intense brainstorming, problem solving, team building, cooking and eating and going

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Feb 20

This is a great chance to be part of an incredibly unique and exciting project building a fundamentally new type of AI based on how the brain works 🧠 🤖

EP 281 Jeff Hawkins and Viviane Clay on the Thousand Brains Theory - The Jim Rutt Show

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Jim Rutt @jimrutt.bsky.social · Feb 5

🎙️ w/ Jeff Hawkins & @vivianeclay.bsky.social on @1000brainsproj.bsky.social & Jeff’s book.

Cortical columns, reference frames in knowledge representation, “voting” for perceptual consensus, Gibson’s affordances, fundamental problems vs impressive demos, and much more. @numentaofficial.bsky.social

Jim talks with Jeff Hawkins and Viviane Clay about the Thousand Brains Project & Jeff's book A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence.

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Viviane Clay @vivianeclay.bsky.social · Jan 6

It feels quite strange to make a roadmap discussion like this public! But it's just another part of our approach to totally open and transparent research at the @1000brainsproj
:) Let us know if you have any thoughts! thousandbrains.discourse.group/t/2025-01-q1...

Thousand Brains Project @thousandbrains.org · Jan 3

🚀 The 2025 Q1 Roadmap is here! 🎥✨

Join @vivianeclay.bsky.social & @cortical-canonical.bsky.social as they dive into this quarters 3 key pillars:
1️⃣ Fundamental Research Progress
2️⃣ Implement Past Years Research
3️⃣ Usability & Extensibility

🔗 Watch now & see whats next:
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2025/01 - Q1 Roadmap