Micah Blumberg wrote:
Has anyone here read Ray Kurweils's new book? I'm a third of the way
through it. No its not the same as Jeff Hawkins idea. Hawkins has a very
narrow focus, he isn't building AGI, he's building software that makes
predictions, its totally different from making an artificial mind. I'm
just interested to hear anyone' reflections on Ray Kurzweil's new material.
I'm reading that book too.
I'm moderately impressed with it so far. I have some concerns about his
neurology. -- I'll have to do some refreshers to see where and to what
extent dendro-dendritic synaptic connections are important... I also am
pretty sure that axions don't branch nearly as much as he seems to
indicate they do. There is basically one big stalk which will produce a
few tiny "collaterals" so the total number of synapses is limited... But
then it's been too many years since I've done serious studying on
neurology.
I wish there was more math in the book, but even still I'm finding lots
of useful inf0z that I had not previously been aware of! =)))
Today, I've been hearing a lot of lip from this Chris Eliasmith character.
http://www.nengo.ca
I am still digging through hype with a back-hoe but if these results are
even remotely real, then all you need to do is solve the hypothalamus
and the amigdalya and you're DONE...
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