I posted some thoughts on that book when it first came out:
http://www.goertzel.org/dynapsyc/2004/OnBiologicalAndDigitalIntelligence.htm Since that time I've had a chance to talk to some neuroscientists about Hawkins' book and also to look at his team's publicly released code. Some thoughts: 1) Most of his neuroscience hypotheses (given at the end of the book) are plausible, but many are not as original as he says, and are commonly known in the neuroscience community already, though not phrased exactly as Hawkins has phrased them 2) While his neuroscience is plausible as far as it goes, it leaves out a heck of a lot, e.g. everything to do with the non-cortex parts of the brain, plus everything to do with complex nonlinear dynamics in the cortex (see Walter Freeman's work, e.g.) 3) His software work so far is quite simplistic and his team's code doesn't really do anything interesting yet. Poggio's group has achieved far more impressive computational vision results with a far more biologically faithful computational model. Sooooo ... it's interesting and important stuff, but I can't escape the conclusion that it's gotten a bit of a media boost because of who Hawkins is ;-) -- Ben G On 4/26/07, Clément Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I would like to attract your attention to the work of Jeff Hawkins and his approach towards AI. It is strongly biologically-inspired and potentially revolutionary. His theory is called Hierarchical Temporal Memory. A recent article summarize it: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr07/4982 See also his book, *On Intelligence *http://www.onintelligence.org Do you know it? What do you think about it? Best regards, Clément Vidal. _________________________________ http://clement.vidal.philosophons.com Evolution, Complexity and Cognition research group, Free University of Brussels. Krijgskundestraat 33. B-1160 Brussels, Belgium. +32 (0) 2 640 67 37 ------------------------------ This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?&;
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