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).
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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Computing Beyond Turing - Jeff Hawkins - YouTube
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCdbZqI1r7I
