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Jeff Hawkins takes the position that only Numenta sees the human brain as a temporal prediction engine based on sparse, hierarchical memory.

And it seems like Jeff Hawkins found both mechanisms in the neocortex.

So he is basically saying Jeff Hawkins was right all along.

This is why I admire the approach Jeff Hawkins is taking by going back to the biological model for more inspiration.

I'm not sure how an article about Trip Hawkins could possibly take this tone.

Jeff Hawkins is a well respected AI researcher that I think seems to agree.

Yes, I realize that Hawkins says some interesting things about 'forward' and 'backward' processing even for 'low-level' processing such as edge detection.

I'll credit John Hawkins (9seeds.com) with the name.

I personally have no big interest in this but Steven Hawkins is a National Treasure and we do need to present a positive view of science to the yoot.

Jeff Hawkins is super smart and a good guy, and he might get more done if he acknowledged the commonalities in the approaches rather than having to invent it all separately at Numenta.

I agree that Hawkins wasn't a great businessman, but I think you're a bit off on both how quickly EA became EA and how invested they were in entertainment software from the start.

It's pretty clear at this point (to me and to most active AI researchers) that some massively parallel statistical system (like Deep Learning based neural network, or Hawkins HTM, or something similar) will be a key ingredient, probably the dominant paradigm, in achieving electronic general intelligence.

Jeff Hawkins himself states "HTM does not present any new idea or theory, but combines existing ideas to mimic the neocortex with a simple design that provides a large range of capabilities".

* Read Jeff Hawkins (On intelligence) * Have GEB (Covered enough of it) My point was to bring out the implicit belief that there is: > Some critical mass or qualitative attribute of brains that puts us "over the threshold" > If consciousness is indeed a variable quantity, then every single able bodied adult human has more "units" of consciousness than, say, a dog.

Hawkins describes this gap well in his book.

You might argue that HTMs pass signals in an analogous way -- that might be a fair statement, from Hawkins' point of view.

It would require changes to state law to rent control post-Costa-Hawkins properties.