Hawkins Memory-Prediction may be a key component of future AGI, but it isn't conscious, and its not meant to be, he is building it for a narrow the application of predicting live streaming big data, to make highly accurate predictions about when to heat a building on a campus, and when to cool it, to save money. That isn't AGI, it has a much more narrow focus. If you shut down the old brain, and just have a neo cortex, your neocortex alone will not be conscious. That's why Hawkins work isn't AGI
On Saturday, December 1, 2012, Tim Tyler wrote: > On 30/11/2012 19:52, Piaget Modeler wrote: > > 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. > > > Not so much. If we knew what the consequences of our actions would be, it > would > help a *lot* with choosing between them. Think of chess, for instance. > If you knew > the likely consequences of your possible moves, you would be done. > > -- > __________ > |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');> Remove lock to reply. > > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/23601407-ccf7ca1d> | > Modify<https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;>Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com> > -- ~~ Warmly, Micah 7 1 4 ) 6 9 9 - 4 2 1 3 (voicemail and texting same digits) ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
