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Free Energy Principle — Karl Friston
Neuroscientist Karl Friston gives a 15-minute talk on the free energy principle, covering Markov blankets, Bayesian model evidence and global brain theories.
Why HN readers recommended it
Offered as a high-level, approachable introduction to Friston's idea of the brain as a prediction machine.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Serious Science
- Topic
- free energy principle
- Format
- lecture
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2023
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From the original HN conversations
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I was studying something similar in my MSc about the neurobiology of language. It's well known that reading circuits in the brain make predictions about which words come next - a sentence like "The jam on the motorway made traffic slow" doesn't elicit much activity, …
frereubu on Hacker News · 2023-03
In Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next (2019)I found this interview with Karl Friston helpful to understand free energy principle from a high level: [VIDEO]
jchook on Hacker News · 2018-11
In Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the key to true AI
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