Our brain consumes just 20 watts β€” as much as a light bulb β€” yet it plans, navigates, and solves new problems in an instant. Large AI systems, by contrast, require enormous amounts of energy and long training times. What if we copied the way the brain really works? πŸ“„ A recent study in Nature Machine Intelligence answers this question: "Neural sampling from cognitive maps enables goal-directed imagination and planning" by H. Lin, Y. Yang, R. Zhao, G. Pezzulo and W. Maass β€” Vol. 8, p...