For people wanting to look into HTM (Hierarchical Temporal Memory), do check out Numenta's main website [1], in particular the papers [2] and videos [3] sections.<p>Otherwise, HTM inventor Jeff Hawkins' book "On Intelligence" is one of the top 3 or so most fascinating books I've ever read. It doesn't cover HTM though, just how the brain works at a conceptual level, but in a way I haven't seen anyone else explain. Jeff clearly has an ability to see the forest through the trees in a way that is not too commonly found. This is one of the reasons I think HTM might be on to something, although it of course has to prove itself in real life too.<p>But we should remember for how long classic Neural Networks was NOT overly successful, and almost dismissed by a lot of people (including my university teacher who was rather skeptical about them, when I took an ML course on like 12 years ago and personally believed a lot in them). We had to "wait" for years and years until enough people were eventually throwing enough work on finding out how to make them really shine.<p>[1] <a href="https://numenta.org/" rel="nofollow">https://numenta.org/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://numenta.com/neuroscience-research/research-publications/papers/" rel="nofollow">https://numenta.com/neuroscience-research/research-publicati...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialNumenta" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialNumenta</a><p>[4] <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Understanding-Creation-Intelligent-Machines/dp/0805078533" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Intelligence-Understanding-Creation-I...</a><p>Edit: Fixed book link.
Hawkins also has a new book coming. His first book (as said in other comments) is a fantastic read.<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Brains-New-Theory-Intelligence/dp/1541675819" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Brains-New-Theory-Intelligen...</a>
Not to be too mean about it, but I feel like this is an instance of brilliant marketing more than anything. The founder of Numenta knows how to communicate to Engineers in a convincing way. Neuroscientists (and Science in general) has a way of politely ignoring outsiders and in any case Computational neuroscience doesn’t have terribly high standards of rigor and quality anyways.
Lex Fridman has a fantastic interview with the Numenta's (and Palm's) founder, Jeff.<p><a href="https://lexfridman.com/jeff-hawkins/" rel="nofollow">https://lexfridman.com/jeff-hawkins/</a>
I fiddled around with it before Google open sourced tensorflow. Seems like the project is almost entirely abandoned-no commits for a year now. I suppose this may have something to do with the death of the lead developer Matt Taylor several months ago(R.I.P.) but I could be wrong. It would be interesting to see if someone could get it up to speed.
As part of this older project, there is a nice benchmarking/comparison example for several types of anomaly detection for sequence data. If you need to do that, looking at this example is worthwhile.