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Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence

Lex Fridman Podcast

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How Does a Real Neuron Affect the Cell?

A real neuron in the brain is a complex thing. It let's jus start with the synapses on it, which is a connection between nerons. Real nerons can everywhere from five to 30 thousand synapses and they're all active at the same time. 95 per cent of those synapses are recognizing dozens o hundreds of unique patterns. And so we showed how networks of these neurons can do very sophisticateda temporal prediction,. There's no concept of this at all in a artificialical point neurons. I don't think you can mail the brain without em.

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