On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 7:24 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> http://numenta.org/ > > An organization formed by Jeff Hawkins (inventor of the Palm Pilot) to > study artificial intelligence. Hawkins idea is that lower level modules in > the brain continually try to predict what signals they will next receive; > and it is only when the predictions fail that signals are passed up to > higher (more interconnected) modules, and it is at the highest level they > become conscious thoughts. > I read his book "On Intelligence" a few years ago and recommend it. It is quite interesting and has some nice ideas on how to implement an AGI. It conveys a lot of information on neuroscience with a strong focus on the visual cortex. He even derives a machine learning model from his ideas, and it appears to have practical applications: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory On the other hand, the excitement appears to have fizzled out after some initial hype, but maybe I'm just unaware of further progress. Will look into it. Pro: I really appreciate his "it's time for computer science to tackle the brain" attitude, focused on actually building things; Con: He dismisses the mind-body problem by essentially claiming that consciousness doesn't even exist. It annoys me, but I can tolerate it because he delivers interesting ideas and models on the practical side of things. Best, Telmo. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
