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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.Tangentially related book recommendation:Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence. It describes the importance of reference frames for intelligence, for locating limbs relative to the body, locating the body in space, locating objects in space (even abstract objects in abstract spaces), and a possible "implementation" of that in the columns of the neocortex (by, basically, if I understood correctly, positing certain neurons that encode location, eg via intersection of coordinates, and certain neurons that encode features, and then learning a connection between those).
A short and interesting read (with quite some implications for progress in AI).
Podcast with Sam Harris: https://samharris.org/podcasts/255-future-intelligence/
Jeff Hawkins at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawkins
The tech developed by his AI company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory
Book at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Brains-New-Theory-Intelligen...
ETA: Oh, quite some previous discussion on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20326396
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19311279
An interesting theory as to why spatiality helps so much is outlined in Jeff Hawkins' "1000 brain theory" (https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Brains-New-Theory-Intelligen...). His team's research hints that all neocortical processing happens with reference frames at the core.
Title needs (2019).A new book by Jeff Hawkins is coming out [0].
⬐ azernikYou know it's an exciting field when something 1.5-2 years old needs a date on it.⬐ VladimirGolovinInteresting. One of the blurbs got my attention:"Brilliant....It works the brain in a way that is nothing short of exhilarating." ― Richard Dawkins.
⬐ cjauvinHis previous book (On Intelligence) is very stimulating and contains many ideas that have interesting connections with Deep Learning. I'm looking forward to read this new one.⬐ KingFelixSecond that, his first book was pretty great and easy to digest.⬐ mrecIIRC it also had an appendix entitled "Testable Predictions", which as a philosophy graduate came as a breath of fresh air.
Hawkins also has a new book coming. His first book (as said in other comments) is a fantastic read.https://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Brains-New-Theory-Intelligen...
⬐ y-c-o-m-bThanks for posting this, I've just pre-ordered it. I didn't know he was coming out with a new one until I saw your post. I really liked reading On Intelligence.⬐ ssivarkFor those interested, the book probably expands on the following paper from a few months ago: https://numenta.com/blog/2019/01/16/the-thousand-brains-theo... (paper linked to from blog post)There's also a recent Lex Fridman podcast episode where he interviews Jeff Hawkins on this theme: https://lexfridman.com/jeff-hawkins/