Why Contribute?
We are excited about all contributors and there may be a wide range of motivations you may have for contributing. Here is a (non exhaustive) list of what those reasons might be and benefits you may have from contributing.
- You are tired of incremental progress on ANN benchmarks.
- You don't believe that LLMs are the path to true machine intelligence/understanding the brain.
- You want to do exciting research but don't have a big compute budget.
- You are looking for a wide open space to explore new ideas.
- You want to solve tasks where little training data is available.
- You want to solve sensorimotor tasks.
- You want to solve a task that requires quick, continuous learning and adaptation.
- You want to better understand the brain and principles underlying our intelligence.
- You want to work on the future of AI.
- You want to be part of a truly unique and special project.
Here is a list of concrete output you may get out of working on this project.
- Write a publication.
- Write your bachelor or master thesis on the thousand brains approach.
- Be part of an awesome community.
- Have your project showcased on our showcase page.
- Have your paper listed on our TBP based papers page.
- Become a code contributor.
- Work directly with people on the TBP team.
- Lastly, for those out there who love achievements, note that when an RFC you have made is merged and active, you can add your GitHub handle to the associated future work item metadata, which will then show up in our interactive future work table. Maybe we'll see you there soon? 🎯
- A legendary TBP mug for completing one of the items on our roadmap or other significant contributions.
As we are putting this code under an MIT license and Numenta has put its related patents under a non-assert pledge, people can also build commercial applications on this framework. However, the current code is very much research code and not an out-of-the-box solution so it will require significant engineering effort to tailor it to your application.
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