Background: Jeff Hawkins
Chapter 1: Artificial Intelligence
- Francis Crick, Thinking About the Brain, 1979 Scientific American
- A computer is programmed, has a CPU, must be perfect to work.
- A brains learns, has no centralized control, is fault tolerant,
generalizes, is flexible.
- What is intelligence? The book claims that intelligence is
something that takes place in the head; it is not a behavior.
- What does it mean to understand?
The book claims that understanding cannot be measured by
external behavior; it is instead an internal metric of how
the brain remembers things and uses memories to make
predictions.
Notable AI Events
Chapter 2: Neural Networks
- Wikipedia article
- NETtalk
- AI neural networks focus on behavior.
- Hawkins believes that neural networks should account for
time, feedback and physical brain structure (repeating hierarchies).
- Autoassociative networks can recreate memories from partial
inputs and can store temporal patterns via time-delay feedback.
Understanding the Brain
- Hawkins believes that the conceptual framework necessary to understand
the brain will be simple.
- Functionalism: intelligence is a property of organization. It
does not matter out of what the brain is organized.