@AgentRev thanks a lot for your more detailed replies here already!
@markellingsen as @AgentRev already pointed out, there isn’t a lot of information available on how Song-Chun Zhu’s approach actually works, so I can’t rely talk to whether it is consistent with our approach and how the brain implements intelligence. As Jeff mentioned in this thread, the way a system works internally is crucial to understanding whether it implements human-like intelligence. The general sentiment of moving away from the non-biological, power- and data-hungry deep learning/LLM solutions towards something that works more like how our brains work and how children learn sounds great.
[Side note: the Thousand Brains Project is a non-profit, independent of Numenta https://thousandbrains.org/about/\]