Episode 12: Conversation with Jeff Hawkins - On Defining Intelligence

05/22/19 • 46 min

In this episode, host Matt Taylor asks Numenta co-founder Jeff Hawkins to define intelligence. Jeff outlines 3 components of intelligence, and revisits them through the lens of the Thousand Brains theory of Intelligence.
According to Jeff, "The bottom line is that Intelligence is only as good as the model that you build."

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Episode 11: Conversation with Subutai Ahmad – On COSYNE

Host Matt Taylor interviews Numenta VP Research Subutai Ahmad about his experience at this year's COSYNE conference. They discuss:

What COSYNE is all about
Why Numenta attends
What Numenta presented

Then Matt dives into the content and asks Subutai about

the difference between tonic and burst modes
how cells in the cortex control modes in the thalamus
why would cortex control modes of thalamus
how TC cells detect precise sparse codes from L6
what the thalamus is providing in the FF input to L6
the hypotheses suggested by the poster

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Episode 13: Subutai Ahmad on Applying HTM Ideas to Deep Learning

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After a summer hiatus, we are back with a new episode. Host Matt Taylor talks to Numenta VP of Research Subutai Ahmad about the effort he has been leading in applying Numenta research and HTM principles to deep learning systems.
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Numenta On Intelligence - Episode 12: Conversation with Jeff Hawkins - On Defining Intelligence

Transcript

Matt00:00:00.800

Today on the Numenta On Intelligence podcast.

Jeff00:00:04.179

You see something to believe the earth is flat and you give them all these facts that don't fit that model. Now, the Earth is flat predicts certain things. Right. And, and, and they will do their damnedest to try to fit these new facts into their model, no matter how, that's what they're going to, otherwise you have to throw the whole thing away and start ov