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Palm Founders Form AI Company
Mentifex writes "As reported in the New York Times, Kansas City Star and other news media, Jeff Hawkins (co-author of On Intelligence) and Donna Dubinsky, co-founders of Palm Computing and Handspring, along with Dileep George as the principal engineer, are starting an AI company named Numenta as a follow-up to Hawkins' recent work on visual processing."
Sounds like an improvement.
A month or so back Ukraine tosses an inept and corrupt government.
Today Kyrgyzstan chucks it's dubious government.
Who knows, maybe some day the people of the USA will follow suit, if they're not so lazy as to leave it to machines to do.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
We can pack large numbers of CPUs on a chip today, considering you can make a simple 16-bit processor in less than 1mm^2. The problem with neural networks is the massive fan-out and fan-in of communication. There are thousands of connections for each neuron, we can't manage that many wires even on-chip. So this ends up being time-multiplexed, meaning you slow things down by a factor of 10,000 or more.
Aside from other problems, e.g. we have trouble modeling a slug with 9 neurons. But i'm not up to speed on that one.
What keeps me going is my inertia.