Jeff Hawkins, Numenta
Why Can’t a Computer Be More Like a Brain? How a New Theory of Neocortex Will Lead to Truly Intelligent Machines
"a single special machine can be m,ade to do the work of all. It could in fact be made to work as a model of any other machine." Alan Turing 1937
computers good for some things, people better for other (visual, auditory, somatosensory perception, languages, adaptive behavior, planning, thinking, etc.)
Why are computers unable to do what brains do? 4 reasons typically given:
1. computers not powerful enough
2. brians too complex to understand
3. brains work on quantum principles
4. brains are magic
brains are not too complex
they don't work on strange principles
we just don't understand how they work
- hierarchy of similar regions
- builds a model of the world by exposure to changing sensory patterns
- representations are distributed hierarchically
HTM, hierarchical temporal memory
1. create a model of its world
2. recognize
3. generate
4. predict
March 27, 2007
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