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#208 – Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Future in Computer Science?

The Wright brothers, the problem they were trying to solve was controlled flight. They studied birds in captivity and watched birds in wind tunnels. And so that's what they did on the right by the flyer. Today airplanes still twist their wings. We don't twist the entire wing. We just tail end of it. The flaps are the same thing. So when we have the principles of computation that goes unto modeling the world and the brain, we understand those principles very clearly. Some of them will be biological like and some won't. But I do think there's going to be a huge amount of innovation here.

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