Book · recommended on 4 episodes
On Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins ISBN 1429900458
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This book by Jeff Hawkins has come up 4 times on Lex Fridman. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Francois Chollet, Lex Fridman. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2019-07-01 and the most recent from 2021-08-08. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“he previously wrote the seminal book on the subject titled on intelligence and recently a new book called a thousand brains”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Jeff Hawkins: Neuroscientist, Numenta co-founder, and author of On Intelligence and A Thousand Brains. He earlier co-founded Palm Computing and now studies the structure and function of the neocortex. Neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins explains his Thousand Brains Theory and why super-intelligent machines need not threaten humanity.
“i read it around the same time is jeff hawkins on intelligence which is a classic and he has this vision of the mind as a multi-scale hierarchy”— Francois Chollet
The guest here is Francois Chollet: Deep learning engineer and AI researcher at Google, creator of the Keras library and author of the paper 'On the Measure of Intelligence' and the ARC challenge. Francois Chollet argues intelligence is the efficiency of acquiring new skills, not skill itself, and explains his ARC test for it.
“in this 2004 book titled on intelligence and in the research before and after he and his team have worked to reverse-engineer the neocortex”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Jeff Hawkins: Founder of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience and Numenta, author of On Intelligence, working to reverse-engineer the neocortex and build brain-inspired AI. Neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins explains his Thousand Brains Theory of intelligence and why understanding the neocortex is the path to real AI.
“the hierarchical temporal memory theory which you first proposed on intelligence and went through a few different generations”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Jeff Hawkins: Founder of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience and Numenta, author of On Intelligence, working to reverse-engineer the neocortex and build brain-inspired AI. Neuroscientist Jeff Hawkins explains his Thousand Brains Theory of intelligence and why understanding the neocortex is the path to real AI.
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