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Summary of On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee | Free Audiobook

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Building Intelligent Machines

Human like robots are simply born out of fiction and should not be looked at for inspiration in developing genuinely intelligent machines. The biggest challenge faced when building intelligent machines is creating the memory. To build intelligent machines, we would need to build them with the same memory capacity as the human brain. Real brains have a large amount of white matter that is made up of millions of axons streaming in all directions just beneath the cortical sheet. An individual cell in the cortex might nect to five or ten thousand other cells. This kind of wiring is near impossible to implement using traditional silican ships. A single cable can quickly transmit large amounts of data, over a million conversations at once. Once these technological challenges

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