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Jeff Hawkins, Who Invented PalmPilot, Says He's Figured Out How the Brain Works PDF Print E-mail
PalmPilot inventor Jeff Hawkins sees no reason why a machine cannot be made to think like a human brain. Speaking at the O'Reilly ETech Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, Hawkins said there is no magic involved in the way human beings are able to recognize images and speech, and adapt as they learn. The neocortex is where things such as seeing and language function occur in the human brain, and although there is no differentiation in the cells in the thin layer covering this area of the brain, the various parts of the brain do different things because they are connected in different ways, he explained. The company Hawkins co-founded, Numenta, is attempting to build software that can learn and think like the human brain, and has developed a software model that is able to learn by experiencing sense data, similar to the manner in which humans do. Conference attendees saw slides that showed how the software can recognize symbols that resemble hieroglyphics. Such technology could allow car makers to build vehicles with sensors to detect dangerous driving conditions. The technology could also be used in gaming, network modeling, drug discovery, vision systems, market analysis, and business modeling.
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