This was a fun conversation!

The idea that massive monolithic models are the “foundation” of anything is a distraction and a dead end. That framing only serves to drive cloud computing profits - that’s it. The future is distributed intelligence. #ArtificialInteligence

I wonder how much of AGI-ism is tied to our need to discover, define and worship something greater than ourselves?

Is it just me or are LLMs the new blockchain? Remember when every problem was a problem that could be solved by sticking it on a blockchain?

It’s a relief to read about something other than AI hype. And here’s where I admit that I am experiencing major #VisionPro FOMO this weekend.

Now hiring! Introducing Noumenal Labs (noumenal.ai), a new deep tech company focusing on multiscale, multimodal time series modeling, object-centered causal physics discovery, continual learning, and energy-based architectures 1/5

First blog post by Noumenal Labs on the “DeepSeek moment”: noumenal.ai/post/the-deeps…

New blog post by Noumenal Labs. We discuss data prediction versus data explanation in the design of artificial intelligence — and why we think AI agents should be designed to behave like curious scientists: noumenal.ai/post/why-ai-sh… Here’s the tl;dr 1/7

We’re very proud to share the Noumenal Labs white paper, “How To Build A Brain”: noumenal.ai/how-to-build-a… 1/7

The Noumenal Labs white paper is now live on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.13161. Enjoy!

New blog post by Noumenal Labs: “Designing grounded world models via macroscopic physics discovery” noumenal.ai/post/designing… 1/4

I’m happy to share the new Noumenal Labs preprint, “Dynamic Markov blanket detection for macroscopic physics discovery,” by Jeff Beck and me arxiv.org/abs/2502.21217: Here’s a thread! This paper resolves a key outstanding issue in the literature on the free energy principle

New blog post by Noumenal Labs: “Filling the gaps in active inference” noumenal.ai/post/filling-t… Here’s the tl;dr • In this blog post, we discuss active inference. Specifically, we discuss key gaps in state-of-the-art applications of active inference in artificial intelligence

New blog post by Noumenal Labs: “AI alignment and theory of mind” noumenal.ai/post/ai-alignm… Here’s the tl;dr • In this blog post, we discuss the approach to AI alignment pursued by Noumenal Labs • The goal of AI alignment is to develop methods and protocols that ensure that

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Neuroscientist Dr. Jeff Beck from Noumenal Labs discusses the fundamental nature of representation, understanding, and modelling, comparing biological intelligence with current artificial intelligence. Jeff argues that *how* information is represented dictates predictive

Physical AI is a new frontier that presents challenges beyond the scope of current approaches to AI. Deep Learning works great in use cases where data is abundant, but in the physical world data is sparse and ever-changing. This necessitates a new set of architectures. Let's go!

New blog post by Noumenal Labs: “Grounded rewards in the era of experience: A commentary on ‘Welcome to the era of experience’”: noumenal.ai/post/grounded-… Here’s the tl;dr: • This post is a commentary on a new paper by Silver and Sutton, entitled “Welcome to the Era of

New blog post by Noumenal Labs: “WTF is the FEP? A short explainer on the free energy principle”: noumenal.ai/post/wtf-is-th… Really happy to share this one! We discuss the free energy principle: What it is, what it is not, what promise it holds, why it can be extremely useful, and