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

[321lawc]

Hurray for atheists

[sunny10star]

wow chihahua dancing!!!! the image is ecstacy!

[sexyloser]

@PornoSatan I guess we'll just have to have people compose a sonnet instead.

[RRRRussia]

@Sciencegek while there is truth in the idea that science is modern religion, it should be acknowledged that certain beliefs are not congruent with a reality that involves man made machines capable of any feat of mental awareness that man has achieved. we are lucky that people are willing to suspend the construction of their belief system until more reliable evidence can be provided by science.

[Sciencegek]

@321lawc This has nothing to do with atheïsm. This is just scientific evolution : ) Don't bring in the old intelligent design (creator) vs "evolutionary" debate. The scientific community (in particular cognitive science) is making nice progress, but we still understand shit :) (and no i'm totally not religious). btw Atheism or science are also just matrices for filtering information and structure our environment for better "understanding". They are religions in essence to.

[FreedomJury]

@1:09:09 Jeff is asked about the possibility of running his non-Turing machines on non-Turing Hardware designed specifically for them, which is totally the right track.

[libertarianjury]

Hawkins is heroic. What a wonderful human being! I wish him the best of success, but he does't need my wishes. People like Hawkins and Monica Anderson should be the heroes of pop culture.

[UnowMe00]

@IceyGrooves ...and invents prosperity linear to peaceful time.

[IceyGrooves]

@batukhan

...till the machine takes your job

[Juefawn]

30,000 Neruoscientist, 3: 50 yet they can't develop a S-AI. Each person working on topic, and a combined conference or culmination of the information using the net would lead to immediate development, as it would with any project.

What more, in that amount of people you will rarely find one that has the same inventive powers as say Vinci, which is somewhat of a probable set back.