I think that Hawkins has a great summary on some things that are necessary for intelligence [0]. Personally I think the tie between motor actuation and sensory

I think that Hawkins has a great summary on some things that are necessary for intelligence [0]. Personally I think the tie between motor actuation and sensory detection is one of the most important -- did a project on that in 2010. Motor-sensory link is essentially how all intelligence evolved. Even c.elegans has neurons to determine whether it should wiggle one way or another. On the surface he seems to be cramming a whole lot of "solutions" into his HTM (hierarchical temporal memory). HTM is an interesting implementation and the sparse coding is definitely a benefit. However I think he is focused too much on his baby and not on other techniques that may fulfill the necessary components more efficiently. That is just on the surface. With a product / research balance maybe we just aren't seeing all the cool things going on underneath in research, but it does seem like that research will be shoe-horned into HTM whether or not it is the best architecture. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y43qwS8fl4&app=desktop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y43qwS8fl4&app=desktop Starting at ~8m20s