Jeff Hawkins – Hierarchical Temporal Memory
How a Theory of the Neocortex May Lead to Truly Intelligent Machines Jeff privateer (Numenta founder) presents as conception of the UBC Department of Computer Science’s Distinguished Lecture Series, March 18, 2010. Coaxing computers to action base acts of representation and robotics, permit lonely high-level thought, has been difficult. No existing organisation crapper discern pictures, see language, or manoeuver finished a untidy shack with anywhere nearby the artefact of a child. privateer and his colleagues hit matured a help of how the cortex performs these and another tasks. The theory, titled Hierarchical Temporal Memory, explains how the hierarchic scheme of the cortex builds a help of its concern and uses this help for illation and prediction. To invoke this theory into a multipurpose technology, privateer has created a consort titled Numenta. In this speech privateer module exposit the theory, its natural basis, and advancement in applying Hierarchical Temporal Memory to organisation acquisition problems. Part of this theory was described in Hawkins’ 2004 book, On Intelligence. Further aggregation crapper be institute at www.Numenta.com
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Comment from wlorenz65
Time July 7, 2011 at 10:47 am
@berlinbrown03 The genes have built in detectors for pleasure and pain into our bodies. The neocortex is able to find the causes and to seek future pleasure and avoid future pain. If the neocortex does a bad job, the old parts of the brain will switch it off and take over control.
Comment from wlorenz65
Time July 7, 2011 at 11:05 am
@AbsentMaverick Corporate leaders have good genes. But AI bodies are better than gene bodies because they don’t get sick and die. While people with bad genes tend to support the development of AI as some kind of vengeance, people with good genes usually fight AIs.
IOW, the winners don’t want to stop the competition.
Comment from anderwan
Time July 7, 2011 at 11:28 am
This is awesome stuff. I never thought I’d be so happy to find out that CAPTCHAs are going to be useless quite soon!
Comment from anderwan
Time July 7, 2011 at 12:07 pm
This is awesome stuff. I never thought I’d be so happy to find out that CAPTCHAs are now obsolete!
Comment from AbsentMaverick
Time July 7, 2011 at 12:34 pm
@htmtutor Thanks. Will do.
Comment from wlorenz65
Time July 7, 2011 at 9:54 am
1. In another video from 2008, Jeff Hawkins said that they have attention implemented and working. Now in 2010 they have completely removed the top-down path from the node design. Why?
2. Where does that t parameter come from? Is it the same in all levels of the hierarchy?