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169. Jeff Hawkins — A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

The Michael Shermer Show

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Is There a Model of Intelligence?

Intelligence is about learning a model the world, and i don't think there's many ways you can do that. There'ud have to be the equivalent of whatever thei columns would be in order to build an intelligence capable of building ito. And so what we've discovered is that the human brain, all mammals, and some sense, theorprotic, is this sort of universal modelling ai. It may bely a shortcoming in my imagination, but i can't imagine there's another way of doing it. I could be shortcoming to my imagi tin fot the moment, it's such a powerful idea. Won't you understand it deeply?

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