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Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #25
Lex Fridman interviews Jeff Hawkins, founder of Numenta and author of On Intelligence, about the Thousand Brains Theory and reverse-engineering the neocortex. They also cover Hierarchical Temporal Memory and brain-inspired AI architectures.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN people send others here to hear Hawkins explain his theory in his own words, including reference frames and the old versus new brain.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Lex Fridman
- Topic
- neocortex and machine intelligence
- Format
- interview
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2021
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From the original HN conversations
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Highly recommend the Lex Fridman interview to listen to Jeff explain live: [VIDEO] While Numenta doesn't have the amazing results of DeepMind and friends, I think they are doing really great stuff in the space of biologically plausible intelligence.
gamegoblin on Hacker News · 2021-02
In The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence (2019)I wouldn't say that the Triune brain theory is a 'myth'. It's just not accurate, but it's not a complete lie either. There certainly are different parts of the brain that have evolved at different times, and have different functions. The older parts have evolved …
Geee on Hacker News · 2021-03
In Myths about how the brain works
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