The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation backed Numenta has recently unveiled a new open-source AI model that was designed to cut the energy and data that is needed to teach intelligent machines. This new model provides the best solution to the problem with currently existing centralised, heavy-consumption AI systems.
Numenta Unveils Energy-Efficient Open-Source AI Model
Numenta, an AI company founded by Jeff Hawkins, the founder of Palm Computing, takes a new perspective on the field that is based on how the brain works. Hawkins, who also co-invented the Palm Pilot, has had a lifelong interest in how the human mind is capable of handling information flows, and specific early AI systems like the Palm Pilot’s handwriting understanding program were heavily inspired by this line of inquiry.
Differently from most of today’s AI models that call for the use of the neural networks that mimic human brain, Numenta dares to do this. The recently developed model poses a novel way to understand the brain activity that the company’s AI wants to take in a bid to achieve new heights of development.
The currently widespread AI solutions generally demand large quantities of data and computational resources for their operation. Applying these models requires going through vast data sets across thousands of chips for extended time and all this requires power. Numenta’s model is designed to reduce both energy usage and dependency on other data and utilities.
Having presented this basically new open-source AI model, Numenta challenges other members of the AI community to consider this different approach. The thinking here is that, by releasing the model so that anyone in the company could use it and build upon it, the execs may spur further developments that can make that application of AI conscious, effective, and environmentally friendly.
Numenta Introduces Continuous Learning AI Model
Numenta has a cat’s-eye view of how artificial intelligence could be taught in a manner akin to how our brains learn from the environment all the time. Fundamentally, the model Numenta proposes is different – not static and based on an enormous number of input/output examples like those used to train an import-export clerk, but dynamic – as is an intelligent child picking up a toy and learning from it interactively.
As noted by Numenta, this learning process would result to smarter theories which do not require large training data sets. Similar to how neurons in the human brain receive tiny morsels of information from sensory preceptors such as vision and feeling, AI could learn by exploring its surroundings and tweaking the parameters of those models every time it comes across new data.
The company thinks that this method has the possibility to transform robotics and make machines perceives the environment in more natural manner. Contrary to the existing complex programming or large databases, robots could in some way function autonomously and modify their behavior depending on newly acquired knowledge in the same way a child studies new actions and develops appropriate strategies to perform them.
Apart from robotics, Numenta envisions more extensive use of this model in numerous kinds of knowledge attainment. From correcting spelling mistakes to enhancing decision-making steps, the company’s methodology can revolutionise acquisition of knowledge and its application in most fields using AI.
On the Wednesday this week Numenta made a further move by releasing the open source computer code that underpins this new approach for other organisations and research to access and share. The idea is to make people look deeper into approaches to education in the context of a new learning paradigm and stimulate teamwork and new developments in the sphere of AI.
Numenta to Monitor Use of Open-Source AI Technology
META Platforms is another company that has publicly availed their AI mechanism, and now Numenta has followed the same process. This has made Meta level up with competitors like OpenAI by reducing the technological difference. However, the decision has also raised some concerns since open-source models like Meta’s AI technology were used by the Chinese military.
Numenta’s CEO, Subutai Ahmad, insisted that the firm would monitor how it is integrating the open-source AI once it goes live. Ahmad realized that while the OSwe offers the prospect of innovation, this means making ethical and security risks arising from the creation of powerful tools available to everyone.
Ahmad however said that as Numenta is set to launch its AI model to the market, the technology is still nascent. In this case, he emphasised that how the company will employ the distribution and usage of the product will depend on how the company will grow and the market offers that will be available.
However, the growth of AI continues at a very fast pace and important concerns arise concerning its misuse. Numenta’s management seems to be fully aware of these risks and intends to track the ways that the created technology is being used in various spheres, such as defense or surveillance.
Ahmad noted that these are important questions, which the company has to solve as the technology is developing. That is why though Numenta is enthusiastic about the opportunities, the company is cautious and pledged to track its creation application.
