Hawkins was on Lex Fridmans podcast a while back. Seems like he's got some controversial ideas based on what I saw in the comments, and he definitely doesn't suffer from lack of confidence, but the hierarchical reference frame concept makes a lot of sense and kind of maps to what i feel like is going on in my head when I go about my day.

Looks like they have been cranking on a pytorch implementation: https://github.com/numenta/nupic.torch