On Intelligence
How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
About the book
Jeff Hawkins, who created the PalmPilot and the Treo smartphone, sets out with science writer Sandra Blakeslee a theory of how the brain produces intelligence. His memory-prediction framework treats the brain as a memory system rather than a computer: it stores sequences of events and keeps making predictions from them. In this account, regions of the cortex form a hierarchy in which higher levels predict over longer spans of time and wider input, while lower levels handle narrow domains. Hawkins uses the theory to argue that current computers lack intelligence and to describe how intelligent machines might be built. An appendix lists eleven testable predictions.
everydayCheck founder Joan Boixados said it lays out a specific theory of how the brain learns and predicts in terms a lay reader can follow, and ties it closely to computer science and artificial intelligence.
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Joan Boixados (Founder/everydayCheck)
I’m reading “On intelligence” by Jeff Hawkins. I am really enjoying it. It’s a very specific theory of how our brain learns and makes predictions (the root of our intelligence) explained for average people unfamiliar with the field. It’s also very related to computer science and artificial intelligence since it tried to prove the current approaches to those are flawed. I’m getting a better understanding of how our brain works and how does our behaviour affects our thinking as much as our thinking affects our behaviour. Thus, it’s interesting to connect it with the idea of habits and how we can really benefit from them.
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