Mike Tintner wrote:
Wow. Really? He can't recognize a basic "dog" / "cat" etc? Are you sure?
Then isn't it a nerve to go public & start distributing the Numenta
system? I would have thought that someone with that kind of
inventive/innovative background, would insist on having something solid
to build on - like the capacity to recognize basic types of animals or
objects. How about "cups" which he also features? His sites do seem to
imply that he has cracked these basic problems.
Hawkins work, as far as I can tell, is:
a) A reinvention of (a variation of) some connectionist or "parallel
distributed processing" ideas that were all the rage back in 1987. (He
would disagree with this, perhaps, but I am looking beyond the specifics
and trying to comment on the big picture).
b) Liable to hit exactly the same brick wall that those previous folks
hit, when (if) he gets his initial ideas to work.
He simply does not have enough of an idea about the big-picture issues
involved in building a real AI.
What he does have a good idea about, though, is self-publicity.
Disclaimer: I base this on a relatively superficial scan of his work:
I got bored with the platitudes very quickly.
Richard Loosemore.
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