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Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There an Understanding of These Mechanisms of Learning?

Anapto genesis is the growth of new synnapses, that's an essential part of learning. Some parts of the brain have more of these than others. So you can remember something really quickly by just flipping a bunch of these guys from silent to active. It's like dataif action potential comes in, it doesn't release any nera transmitter. If i do that over a bunch ofThese, i've got a very quick, short tum memory. A lesson behind isis, at most neural networks to day are fully connected. Every neuron connects every other neuron from layer to layer. That's not correct in the brain. We don't want that. We actually don't want

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