Yes, and quite unjustifiably so in my opinion, which is why I sourced all those links in my comment. From what I've seen, Numenta is very good at a specific class of problems (time series prediction and anomaly detection).

Feel free to underestimate them. It's really not my problem.

And do pompous, abrasive comments like yours really add anything to the discussion? Why don't you elaborate on why they are a "joke" to serious intellectuals like yourself.

Because they continously claim they're "ahead of everyone" and how everyone else is stupid and their glorious htm will beat everyone....and then proceeds to get destroyed by convnets...and then moves the goalposts to anomaly detection only...and then gets beaten on their own heavily rigged benchmark dataset.