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> Two thirds is spent on fantasizing and speculation about what Hawkins believes will be AIs impact on the fate of humanity. I'd say time will tell, but after
by musingsole 5y ago
> Two thirds is spent on fantasizing and speculation about what Hawkins believes will be AIs impact on the fate of humanity.
I'd say time will tell, but after tracking Numenta for 10+ years now...I'm starting to smell snakes oil. Thought provoking stuff, but he's too insistent that it has content he never provides.
- GeorgeTirebiter 5y agoI'm curious, if the year were 2011, would you be saying that all that 'deep learning' stuff of Hinton was just a load of malarkey? Because most people did. And then, 2012 happened and the world changed. This is the problem when working on Hard Problems -- you cannot predict with certainty when your work will pay off (if ever...).
- musingsole 5y agoWhen the year was 2011, I was looking into Jeff Hawkins Hierarchical Temporal Memories while other researchers looked at deep learning. One of those methods led to many successful projects and spawned many child projects and theses. The other has been ignored to make room for a new book.