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

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The Learning Mechanism

When we see new things, or things that are different than we expect, our attention is immediately drawn to them. And as soon as a predictions incorrect, that's the training signal and says, all right, part of your old model is wrong. You don't even have to ask yourself that you hat to say, is that the same coin i saw earlier? I tis you ought byand o wat. That's not right. So people who look at a chair and one person says, no, that's not a chair, that's an ee card - it doesn't make sense. But when we talk about other things we can't observe directly, whether it's eno

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