A G I - A Singularity?

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i make an argument in t e book that if we're going to great a g i it has to be built on the same principles, a sort of universal modelling. And by twenther, i think yes. We have bsered a universal learning mechanism. Its scale, plus the fact we flip this to being something that can learn anything. But would analogy bea difference tween a i and a g i? Maybe a i think it er, that's a good analogy. Am, yes. Well, course, a g i doesn't exist. It's a theoretical a g i one that's toee, a singularity.

Michael Shermer speaks with Jeff Hawkins, cofounder of Numenta: a neuroscience research company, about his new book A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence in which Hawkins explains how simple cells in the brain create intelligence by using maplike structures to build hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. Listen to this in-depth dialogue about the discoveries that allow Hawkins to answer important questions about how we perceive the world, why we have a sense of self, and the origin of high-level thought.