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Pre­dic­tive Processing

TagLast edit: 26 Dec 2022 6:13 UTC by Roman Leventov

(From Wikipedia) predictive processing (a.k.a. predictive coding, the Bayesian Brain hypothesis) is a theory of brain function in which the brain is constantly generating and updating a mental model of the environment. The model is used to generate predictions of sensory input that are compared to actual sensory input. This comparison results in prediction errors that are then used to update and revise the mental model.

Active Inference can be seen as a generalisation of predictive processing. While predictive processing only explains the agent’s perception, Active Inference models both perception and action as inference under the same unifying objective: optimisation of the informational quantity called variational free energy.

External Links:
Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty—Introduction to predictive processing by Scott Alexander
Predictive Processing And Perceptual Control by Scott Alexander

Related Pages: Perceptual Control Theory, Neuroscience

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Pre­dic­tive Cod­ing has been Unified with Backpropagation

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How uniform is the neo­cor­tex?

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[Question] What De­ci­sion The­ory is Im­plied By Pre­dic­tive Pro­cess­ing?

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Why Si­mu­la­tor AIs want to be Ac­tive In­fer­ence AIs

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Pre­dic­tive cod­ing = RL + SL + Bayes + MPC

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Book Re­view: Be­ing You by Anil Seth

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Scott Alexander12 Sep 2016 13:35 UTC
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Three char­ac­ter­is­tics: impermanence

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Toward A Bayesian The­ory Of Willpower

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Pre­dic­tive Pro­cess­ing, Hetero­sex­u­al­ity and Delu­sions of Grandeur

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Beyond Re­in­force­ment Learn­ing: Pre­dic­tive Pro­cess­ing and Checksums

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Magic of syn­chronous conversation

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Top Left Mood

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The Medium Is The Bandage

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The Echo Principle

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Con­di­tion­ing Pre­dic­tive Models: Large lan­guage mod­els as predictors

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A re­ply to Byrnes on the Free En­ergy Principle

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Ba­sic Math­e­mat­ics of Pre­dic­tive Coding

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