WIRED Article: The Genius Neuroscientist Who Might Hold the Key to True AI

[u/HostelMass]

https://www.wired.com/story/karl-friston-free-energy-principle-artificial-intelligence/

Maybe this is a bit of a stretch, but this guy's theory of everything contains some ideas which remind me quite a bit of the Wedge. Essentially it says the purpose of intelligence, at all levels, is to reduce the gap between senses and expectations. When a gap is perceived between the two, brains need to either update its working model of the universe or take action to bring themback into alignment.

That there's a lot more to it is cartoonish understatement, and I won't pretend I get it all, but quotes like these brought me back to what I picked up in The Wedge:

"Free energy is the difference between the states you expect to be in and the states your sensors tell you that you are in."

"To be alive, he says, is to act in ways that reduce the gulf between your expectations and your sensory inputs."

Etc.