Computing Beyond Turing - Jeff Hawkins

Coaxing computers to perform basic acts of perception and robotics, let alone high-level thought, has been difficult. No existing computer can recognize pictures, understand language, or navigate through a cluttered room with anywhere near the facility of a child. Hawkins and his colleagues have developed a model of how the neocortex performs these and other tasks. The theory, call Hierarchical Temporal Memory, explains how the hierarchical structure of the neocortex builds a model of its world and uses this model for inference and prediction. To turn this theory into a useful technology, Hawkins has created a company called Numenta. In this talk, Hawkins will describe the theory, its biological basis, and a software platform created by Numenta that allows anyone to apply this theory to a variety of problems. Part of this theory was described in Hawkins' 2004 book, "On Intelligence".

This talk is by the Chairman of the Redwood Neuroscience Institute and co-founder of Palm Computing and Handspring, and is co-sponsored by Calit2 at UCSD, the Jacobs School's Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)department, and the Institute for Neural Computation (INC).

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[batukhan]

I'm glad i'm still 20, and the world will drastically change in my lifetime.

Jeff is one of those historical figures, it seems

[Ilgas]

It contradict with Turings' theory about AI.

But not with Turing's theory about computing (Turing machines).

[rouncer81]

its just a tape recorder, with funny bits.

[JoseJimeniz]

Wow. He crammed a 3 hour lecture into one.

[Wulfcry]

0:19.00 . That is true but baby's move while their body is in development in the womb. So there have to be some deep neural activity that will always continuously stimulate and gets stimulated in response. When your born you don't know anything.

Thus why do we recognize structure, what is it that drives a young developing body to go beyond auto-stimulus into sensing the world seeing , feeling, hearing. A baby lie down , A baby roles ,A baby crawls ,A baby grabs and baby explores an object.

[gettheflockoutofhere]

Very impressive but not "Beyond Turing". All his ideas are computable in the Turing sense and his programs run on regular computers, i.e. Universal Turing Machines. In fairness Hawkins is careful to clarify that he has potentially advanced the intelligence of machines, but has not created machine awareness.

[francis short jr]

Turning was a weird

[iFreeThinker]

Haha, he's so obviously ADHD.

[DubTurboDigital]

good god how could religion come up again?