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NESS, the Neural-Symbolic Sandwich
Article Sep 29, 2026

NESS, the Neural-Symbolic Sandwich

A new direction for making transformers AGI-friendly—via judiciously mixing continuous symbolic program learning into open-weights transformers.
Ben Goertzel 43 min read
Bridging Neuroscience and AI: The Neural Generative Coding Framework
Community May 27, 2026

Bridging Neuroscience and AI: The Neural Generative Coding Framework

What if AI learned more like the human brain? Neural Generative Coding replaces backpropagation with local, brain-inspired learning for efficient, adaptive, data-smart intelligence.

Yohannes Gessesse 3 min read
Learning materials based on mechanical neural networks
News Dec 9, 2024

Learning materials based on mechanical neural networks

Physicists at the University of Michigan have developed material systems that can learn using mechanical neural networks.

Giulio Prisco 2 min read