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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The History of Science Suggests That You Look for Simple Explanations

I think that, you know, the history of science suggests that's not likely to occur. We as humans desire for a clean explanation and 100 years from now, uh, intelligent systems might look back at us and laugh at how we try to get rid of the whole mess by having simple explanation. When the reality is it's, it's way messier. And in fact, it's impossible to understand, you can only build it. It's like this idea of complex systems and cellular automata. Yeah. You can only launch the thing you cannot understand it.

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