Subutai Ahmad
@subutaiahmad.bsky.social
CTO @Numenta. Neuroscience & AI. I love to discuss sparsity, sensorimotor learning, dendrites, deep learning, and #OpenScience.
Very interesting article by @melaniemitchell.bsky.social one of the most thoughtful critics of LLMs. Hallucination is built into LLMs. One urgent implication to me is that we should not use autonomous LLM based agents in any reasonably important scenario today, despite all the hype around them.
In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail).
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Why AI chatbots lie to us
A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr...
www.science.org
July 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Very interesting article by @melaniemitchell.bsky.social one of the most thoughtful critics of LLMs. Hallucination is built into LLMs. One urgent implication to me is that we should not use autonomous LLM based agents in any reasonably important scenario today, despite all the hype around them.
New paper releases from the Thousand Brains Project!!
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This week, we’re releasing two milestone papers: one shows the amazing capabilities of thousand-brains systems and their benefits over deep learning, the other proposes a new theory of long-range connections in the neocortex. Years of work led to this.
This week, we’re releasing two milestone papers: one shows the amazing capabilities of thousand-brains systems and their benefits over deep learning, the other proposes a new theory of long-range connections in the neocortex. Years of work led to this.
July 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
New paper releases from the Thousand Brains Project!!
Reposted by Subutai Ahmad
Now that Sam Altman has coined the term “gentle singularity”, what other mathematical concepts should have nonsensical adjectives applied to them?
I’ll go first: “spicy infinities”
I’ll go first: “spicy infinities”
June 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Now that Sam Altman has coined the term “gentle singularity”, what other mathematical concepts should have nonsensical adjectives applied to them?
I’ll go first: “spicy infinities”
I’ll go first: “spicy infinities”
Fantastic to see this thought provoking article by @kathrynhulick.substack.com in Science News on how neuroscience could help AI. It's amazing how much hardware has shaped AI.
What could we do if we allowed ourselves the intellectual freedom to break away from hardware constraints?
What could we do if we allowed ourselves the intellectual freedom to break away from hardware constraints?
Could worm brains and ideas from neuroscience lead to better #AI? I just got my copy of a story I wrote about #neuromorphic computing for @sciencenews.bsky.social sciencenews.org/article/brai... 🧪 Thanks @subutaiahmad.bsky.social @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social & many others who shared their expertise
More brainlike computers could change AI for the better
New brain-inspired hardware, architectures and algorithms could lead to more efficient, more capable forms of AI.
sciencenews.org
March 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Fantastic to see this thought provoking article by @kathrynhulick.substack.com in Science News on how neuroscience could help AI. It's amazing how much hardware has shaped AI.
What could we do if we allowed ourselves the intellectual freedom to break away from hardware constraints?
What could we do if we allowed ourselves the intellectual freedom to break away from hardware constraints?
Reposted by Subutai Ahmad
now that DeepSeek has completed AI, we hope that Silicon Valley will turn its attention to the next best thing: investing in rural history museums
January 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
now that DeepSeek has completed AI, we hope that Silicon Valley will turn its attention to the next best thing: investing in rural history museums
The video of the Thousand Brains Launch is now live! We had hundreds of folks attend live and >100 great questions. Watch Jeff Hawkins’ overview of how sensorimotor learning will unlock AI & robotics, plus deep dive into talks, roadmap, and community contributions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqFZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqFZ...
December 5, 2024 at 7:47 PM
The video of the Thousand Brains Launch is now live! We had hundreds of folks attend live and >100 great questions. Watch Jeff Hawkins’ overview of how sensorimotor learning will unlock AI & robotics, plus deep dive into talks, roadmap, and community contributions.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqFZ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqFZ...
Join us on December 4th at 9AM PST for an exclusive presentation by Jeff Hawkins + Thousand Brains Project team!
Agenda
➤ Overview of our open-source initiative to build a new type of sensorimotor AI 🧠
➤ How to get involved 🤝
➤ Live Q&A💡
📍 RSVP & details here:
www.meetup.com/thousand-bra...
Agenda
➤ Overview of our open-source initiative to build a new type of sensorimotor AI 🧠
➤ How to get involved 🤝
➤ Live Q&A💡
📍 RSVP & details here:
www.meetup.com/thousand-bra...
Thousand Brains Project Launch Symposium, Wed, Dec 4, 2024, 9:00 AM | Meetup
Join **Jeff Hawkins** and the Thousand Brains Project Team as we present the origin, vision, and execution of our new open-source initiative, the Thousand Brains Project. �
www.meetup.com
December 3, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Join us on December 4th at 9AM PST for an exclusive presentation by Jeff Hawkins + Thousand Brains Project team!
Agenda
➤ Overview of our open-source initiative to build a new type of sensorimotor AI 🧠
➤ How to get involved 🤝
➤ Live Q&A💡
📍 RSVP & details here:
www.meetup.com/thousand-bra...
Agenda
➤ Overview of our open-source initiative to build a new type of sensorimotor AI 🧠
➤ How to get involved 🤝
➤ Live Q&A💡
📍 RSVP & details here:
www.meetup.com/thousand-bra...
Really enjoying the Podcast Complexity, from SFI. Particularly the Nature of Intelligence season by @melaniemitchell.bsky.social. The last 2 episodes on Babies v Machines & the intelligence (sic) of LLMs have been spot on. Balanced but diving into the key issues.
www.santafe.edu/culture/podc...
www.santafe.edu/culture/podc...
sfiscience
www.santafe.edu
November 19, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Really enjoying the Podcast Complexity, from SFI. Particularly the Nature of Intelligence season by @melaniemitchell.bsky.social. The last 2 episodes on Babies v Machines & the intelligence (sic) of LLMs have been spot on. Balanced but diving into the key issues.
www.santafe.edu/culture/podc...
www.santafe.edu/culture/podc...
Check out Jeff Hawkins' recent article in @fastcompany.com Jeff responds to absurd claims by Sam Altman and other AI advocates, and discusses how a neuroscience-based sensorimotor approach could pave the way for the future of AI.
@numentaofficial.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91228937/for...
@numentaofficial.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91228937/for...
For truly intelligent AI, we need to mimic the brain's sensorimotor principles
Brains suggest an alternate way to build AI—one that will replace deep learning as the central technology for creating artificial intelligence.
www.fastcompany.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Check out Jeff Hawkins' recent article in @fastcompany.com Jeff responds to absurd claims by Sam Altman and other AI advocates, and discusses how a neuroscience-based sensorimotor approach could pave the way for the future of AI.
@numentaofficial.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91228937/for...
@numentaofficial.bsky.social
www.fastcompany.com/91228937/for...
An op-ed I wrote for Fortune on the importance of Neuroscience for AI is below. Hope it's of interest!
#neuroscience #AI
fortune.com/2023/08/15/t...
#neuroscience #AI
fortune.com/2023/08/15/t...
December 12, 2023 at 12:07 AM
An op-ed I wrote for Fortune on the importance of Neuroscience for AI is below. Hope it's of interest!
#neuroscience #AI
fortune.com/2023/08/15/t...
#neuroscience #AI
fortune.com/2023/08/15/t...
I had the pleasure of hosting Ramy Mounir at Numenta to discuss his work on how networks can learn robust representations in an online, streaming task-setting, demonstrating impressive results inspired by neuroscience and psychology.
Video of his talk below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jZt...
Video of his talk below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jZt...
December 12, 2023 at 12:05 AM
I had the pleasure of hosting Ramy Mounir at Numenta to discuss his work on how networks can learn robust representations in an online, streaming task-setting, demonstrating impressive results inspired by neuroscience and psychology.
Video of his talk below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jZt...
Video of his talk below:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jZt...