I'm not sure who claimed the brain was a "predictive engine" or what that means exactly. The OP specifically referenced predictive coding which describes precisely what is meant, and has empirical support.
If you meant this as a comparison to machine learning, then a predictive coding model closely matches.
My former claim is that everything in the natural world can be reduced to statistics, so saying meaning cannot be derived "because statistics" is a very poor argument.
The second is a theory for the underlying mechanisms of the brain.
Experience wires our brains by forming/strengthening/weakening synapses based on correlated activity, starting with perception.
In other words, our brains are tuned according to the statistics of experience, just as a Transformer's weights are tuned by the statistics of the training set.
Thanks for sharing!
In the 1st example ["computer nerds", "hackernews", "geeky", "computer tones"] seem to make the result sound more like an old-school RPG soundtrack rather than a song.
