Jeff Hawkins - Lessons From The Neocortex For AI - Numenta

Jeffrey Hawkins is the American founder of Palm Computing and Handspring. He has since turned to work on neuroscience full-time, founded the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002, founded Numenta in 2005 and published On Intelligence describing his memory-prediction framework theory of the brain.
Recorded At MIT, Dec 15th, 2017

[CreationTribe]

The problem with this world is that this video only has ~8k views and 196 likes.
Jeff Hawkins, you're the shit! Not only did you just hit me with a solid 5 epiphanies, but I get it - I mean, I totally get it. Man, you just gave me the means to solve a coding problem/project I've been tossing around for a couple of years. Danke!

[paxdriver]

Brilliant!!! One of the best neurology lectures out there, thank you much!

[eastonlee]

"I'm not joking, a single column can learn thousands of things", this surprised me

[oker]

Jacob Bronowski, in his "Science and Human Values", mentions how Mount Everest hikers shows how perception works. Eric Shipton discovered new routes up Mount Everest even the locals didn't know about. He relates learning what the locals knew about Mount Everest,

"On the morning of the 27th we turned into the Lobujya Khola, the valley which contains the Khombu Glacier(which flows from the south and south-west side of Everest). As we climbed into the valley we saw at its head the line of the main watershed. I recognized immediately the peaks and saddles so familiar to us from the Rongbuk(the north side): Pumori, Lingtren, the Lho La, the North Peak and the west shoulder of Everest. It is curious that Angtarkey, who knew these features as well as I did from the other side and had spent many years of his boyhood grazing yaks in this valley, had never recognized them as the same; nor did he do so now until I pointed them out to him." - Eric Shipton(through Jacob Bronowski's "Science and Human Values", page 30)

Perception is like two complementary surfaces. Either the surfaces match, or they don't. This is like the constituent relations stage of creative concept formation, as I mention in my Origins of mathematical knowledge(third post of this blog). Jacob Bronowski goes further . . .

Jacob Bronowski points out that true and false exists at the proposition level and not the formation of abstractions/concepts level(constituent relations level). Once the sense data is put into a concept form, then we ask what is true. "If this is really a mountain, we say, then the bearing of that landmark should be due east;" I'd like to quote the Shakespear he also quotes as well,

"Is this a dagger, which I see before me, the Handle toward my Hand? Come, let me clutch thee-

Come, let me clutch thee: I haue(have?) thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not fatall Vision, sensible To feeling, as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the Minde, a false Creation?"

[Stan_]

Jeff is on something big .. I expect he will start getting big recognition ..
The key to solve the problem is to have big expertise both in neuroscience and in IT. You cannot solve it if you are just neuroscience expert or if you are just IT expert.

[paultulloch]

amazing video- I can see the future of machine learning coming on loud and clear- selective analysis- and therefore the future of machine learning will be much more predictive oriented- find out the differences and focus the processing power. Layers of the brain focused on predicting the unusual- but a lot of hardware dedicated to keeping the human in the usual- its no wonder we dislike change!

[thorkrynu]

I couldn't stop thinking about the touch my body challenges on YouTube. Sad but true.

[tobiaszb]

50:00 can this help with modern representation democracy crisis?

[tobiaszb]

54:00 just read some phenomenology stuff about social (features, behaviors) and sensible dimensions of non conscious field.

[tobiaszb]

So - a little represetation of a cup lives in me (on some layers) and a represetation of myself lives in me. If I treat self as all the living representations - the World that is for me indistiguishable from representations, I accept partial predictive features of it, all people lives in me. Than the idea of "outside" and "inside" can flip.
Just like in a joke:
How does a mathematician catch a lion into a cage?
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-He goes inside of it, lock it and make an inversion!

[RobertsMrtn]

I think that Jeff's idea about the predictive nature of the brain is spot on. My only criticism is that he seems to be going in at a too high a level when trying to understand the brain. We need to understand the underlying simplicity and from the simplicity comes the complexity.

[Anon-xdcf]

Computer science geniuses can't get their heads around using a microphone consistently.