Thursday, May 8, 2008

Jeff Hawkins - Why Can't a Computer Be More Like a Brain?

Jeff Hawkins - Why Can't a Computer Be More Like a Brain?
Despite amazing strides, computers are still relatively poor at performing high level activities that come naturally to the human brain. Co-founder of Palm, Inc., Jeff Hawkins, describes recent breakthroughs in the modeling of brain functions based on the theory of Hierarchical Temporal Memory. New insights into how the neocortex supports cognition, inference and prediction can be applied to a variety of problems using Hawkins' Numenta computing platform.

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