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The recent episode of the Lex Fridman podcast with Jeff Hawkins touches on this issue of the computational capabilities of single neurons: https://youtube.com/

• dwd 5y ago
  He also appeared recently on Sam Harris's podcast to a bit more more skepticism. I thought he didn't break much new ground from his previous appearance on Lex's podcast in 2019, which I went back and listened to before listening to the latest one. But...in saying that - listening to him again triggered a multitude of aha moments for me, and got me thinking about things like: "what is a dream", "how does deja-vu work" in the context of cortical columns, 1000 brain theory, predictive voting, etc. I though his most recent explanation on how creating an artificial neocortex is not a risk in itself, but rather what you ask it to do. He was also adamant that giving an AI the ability to self-replicate should be where we draw the line. This was very interesting when they previously discussed that topic but was months before SARS-CoV-2: https://www.happyscribe.com/public/lex-fridman-podcast-artificial-intelligence-ai/jeff-hawkins-thousand-brains-theory-of-intelligence#paragraph_7047 https://www.happyscribe.com/public/lex-fridman-podcast-artif...