Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence [video]

Post by yters » Mon, Jul 01, 2019, 4:58 PM UTC

Post by p1esk » Mon, Jul 01, 2019, 5:01 PM UTC

nabla9 wrote: post #15

TaupeRanger wrote: post #13

Jeff and Subutai have been on this hobby horse for a very long time. They don't have much to show for it, and many of their ideas are controversial even within neuroscience (for example, some think that their venerated "cortical columns" are structures without meaningful functions). It is very easy to bet against them given the fact that nothing much has happened, and "theories" about the brain are a dime-a-dozen. I'…

That's the blessing/curse with completely self funded research group. No strict timelines, yearly review, benchmarks or external pressure. There is no hurry to deliver, you can dream on and keep developing your pet idea indefinitely. Nobody can tell you that you were wrong and you are now done.

Post by jacobush » Mon, Jul 01, 2019, 5:04 PM UTC

whatever_dude wrote: post #23

UnpossibleJim wrote: post #8

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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, unthink…

When thinking on where we're headed, I tend to subscribe to the Culture theory, which I suppose is a bit in the middle between Wally and Star Trek: AI is certainly superior and running the show, but they're happy letting humanity live as if they're the bosses. In it, humans are basically treated like pets or toddlers, in that they "do stuff" but they're kind of oblivious to the fact that AI is moving the world forwar…

Post by p1esk » Mon, Jul 01, 2019, 5:07 PM UTC

jacobush wrote: post #26

whatever_dude wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When thinking on where we're headed, I tend to subscribe to the Culture theory, which I suppose is a bit in the middle between Wally and Star Trek: AI is certainly superior and running the show, but they're happy letting humanity live as if they're the bosses. In it, humans are basically treated like pets or toddlers, in that they "do stuff" but they're kind of oblivious to the fact that AI is moving the world forwar…

Are you all talking about Wall-E?

Post by p1esk » Mon, Jul 01, 2019, 5:12 PM UTC

canistel wrote: post #25

Dileep George, one of the original co-founders of Numenta have since moved on to co-found Vicarious.They were in the news after breaking captcha, that too with commonplace hardware. They are far too secretive, but there is reason to believe that they too are part of the HTM legacy...