Dear Aki Iskandar
My 2 cents.
I haven't read the book On Intelligence, but from the book flowed a
proof-of-concept program which I analyzed thoroughly. I read the source of
the program, analyzed the Dileep George and Hawkin's papers etc.
The idea of the proof-of-concept is basically a
Eric,
I am not surprised that he said nothing: you make statements about COLT
that are simply not accepted by people who have taken a critical look at it:
1) COLT takes the real process of concept learning and IDEALIZES it.
2) The idealization involves a two-step process:
A) Assume
Aki Iskandar wrote:
I'd be interested in getting some feedback on the book On Intelligence
(author: Jeff Hawkins).
It is very well written - geared for the general masses of course - so
it's not written like a research paper, although it has the feel of a
thesis.
The basic premise of the
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Richard Loosemore wrote:
) Aki Iskandar wrote:
) I'd be interested in getting some feedback on the book On Intelligence
) (author: Jeff Hawkins).
)
) It is very well written - geared for the general masses of course - so it's
) not written like a research paper,
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:52, Aki Iskandar wrote:
I'd be interested in getting some feedback on the book On
Intelligence (author: Jeff Hawkins).
...
The basic premise of the book, if I can even attempt to summarize it
in two statements (I wouldn't be doing it justice though) is:
1 -
I think On Intelligence is a good book. It made an impact on
me when I first read it, and it lead to me reading a lot more neuro
science since then. Indeed in hindsight is seems strange to me
that I was so interested in AGI and yet I hadn't seriously studied
what is known about how the brain
Thanks guys. It is relieving to get your insights.
Hawkins' second set of statements, in my original thread, seemed to
not feel right.
Granted, scientists do not know how our grey matter works - not from
an in depth / confirmed stance at least - so its probably fairly easy
to come up
Sorry, the new version of the book I mentioned (I read the old one) is
called Principles of Neural Science.
With regards to computer power, I think it is very important. The average
person doing research in AI (i.e. a PhD grad student) doesn't have access
to much more than a PC or perhaps a
Eric - very interesting email. It's a shame that Hawkins skirted the
issues, and questions you posed to him.
He's obviously a very intelligent man - but maybe more so on the
business side (he's had outstanding success) than pure research - maybe?
I'd like to be able to read his sequel
