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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Prediction Mechanism of a Single Neuron

The way it manifests itself in neural tissue is that when a neuron, a neuron emits these spikes are a very single type of event. If a neuron is predicting that it's going to be active, it emits its spike very a little bit sooner than it would have otherwise. And what happens is when you have a whole bunch of neurons together, and they're all getting these inputs, the ones that are in the predictive state happen sooner.

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