Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]
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Re: Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]
#2Just a side note, Lex has been killing it with this podcast. He’s been able to land some remarkable guests for a relatively new show with a niche market. I personally think he does a great job of mixing up the conversation with both technical and philosophical angles.
Highly recommended.
Re: Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]
#3Learning a lot about the neocortex. Any recommendations on how to learn more?
@7:45 It’s the size of a dinner napkin, 2.5mm think, uniform, and similar in other animals.
@9:50 if you took the optic nerve and attached it to another part of the neocortex, that part would become the visual region.
@34:30 Thousand brains theory of intelligence.
Re: Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]
#4Once intelligence is "solved", most humans are completely and utterly screwed.
Re: Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]
#5Learning a lot about the neocortex. Any recommendations on how to learn more? @7:45 It’s the size of a dinner napkin, 2.5mm think, uniform, and similar in other animals. @9:50 if you took the optic nerve and attached it to another part of the neocortex, that part would become the visual region. @34:30 Thousand brains theory of intelligence.
Note that the "uniform" part, on which the second part ist also conditioned, ist not universally accepted. There are certainly shared elements, but most likely also specialisations.
Re: Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]
#6Been following hawkins and Numenta for a while. They have never really taken off in commercial applications as far as I know despite some sound reasoning behind their theories. Hopefully they will make an impactful breakthrough soon.
Re: Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]
#7Jeff has been at this for a really long time now. If it is this hard to make progress, it is likely basic research that just requires a hard slog and also may not turn out in the end as all basic research is risky. My default bet then is against him because most basic research fails, with a small chance of success.
Re: Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]
#8Once intelligence is "solved", most humans are completely and utterly screwed.
There's the "Wally vs. Star Trek" theory of Artificial Intelligence (I know it sounds goofy, but it makes a difference when looking towards the direction of AI). If you look at the direction AI will take, science fiction is really all we have to go on and we have three platforms:
Terminator - To be avoided at all costs (everyone agrees)
Wally - AI does its best to "take care" of us, turning us into infantile, unthinking, pleasure seeking dweebs. The ultimate basal brain utopia. But empty.
Star Trek (TNG) - AI as an assistant to help us fulfill our higher purpose and make us better at being a higher order being. There is no doubt that the ship's computer has advanced AI if you look at the questions posed to it by the engineers and the crew, but it does not impose its "will" upon them. It is an observer until directly asked, even when death is at hand (seemingly).
There is a very good video on YouTube about it, but I can't find it (right now) that explains it in a very accessible way (that's pretty entertaining) with no real knowledge of the underlying functionality necessary. I suggest you watch it. It's great!
Re: Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]
#9I'm like 50/50 on whether or not Lex is himself an artificial intelligence.
Re: Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]
#10Jeff has been at this for a really long time now. If it is this hard to make progress, it is likely basic research that just requires a hard slog and also may not turn out in the end as all basic research is risky. My default bet then is against him because most basic research fails, with a small chance of success.
Got introduced to Jeff after watching him keynote a conference about a decade ago. He's a great speaker. Also thought they had some interesting tech when it came to computer vision at the time. Sadly it never took off and then ConvNets blew whatever Numenta was doing out of the water. Surprised even with someone like Jeff that Numenta hasn't had any commercial success.