I find it hard to believe bleedMeGood and Crake didn't collude on the robot sentry followed by this. Sigh. I'm glad these computers won't have actual emotions as I would feel sorry for the dears, locked up in a basement somewhere in the pentagon playing spot the darkie 24/7, Lol

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This is a brilliant talk. I love this stuff. *promote

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Jeff Hawkins is a gawdamn hero.

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Like fusion reactors - A.I. breakthroughs always seem to be about 20 years out. I watched the whole thing, and it sounds really promising, but I wonder if it's just another model that will get us a little way there- and then come up against a fundamental roadblock. Marvin Minsky has sure been at this stuff a long time - and would probably be a bit skeptical.

I love the idea of having a financial market as a "sense" to feed to the A.I. It all sounds very cyberpunk-rock.

Basing the algorithms and overall system organization on brain biology seems very cool to me, particularly in light of what he says about the cortex being essentially uniform across its surface.

Think about what we see human brains doing under exceptional circumstances. Someone who is born blind can develop "superhuman" ability to process auditory information and use it in ways that average people scarcely believe possible. Autistic people often have obsessions with some particular system or activity, which can turn into savant-like proficiency in it.

So much of what our brains process is linked to rather mundane human survival and daily life, but if we could make an artificial intelligence like this that takes input only from a very narrow area of interest and focus, perhaps it would eventually display savant-like proficiency in processing, understanding, and predicting that particular field of input.

Very cool!

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