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Building Brainlike Computers

Posted by kdawson on from the cortexes-for-all dept.

newtronic clues us to an article in IEEE Spectrum by Jeff Hawkins (founder of Palm Computing), titled Why can't a computer be more like a brain? Hawkins brings us up to date with his latest endeavor, Numenta. He covers progress since his book On Intelligence and gives details on Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM), which is a platform for simulating neocortical activity. Programming HTMs is different — you essentially feed them sensory data. Numenta has created a framework and tools, free in a "research release," that allow anyone to build and program HTMs.

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  1. Sad news...John Corzine dead at 60 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. this is stupid by corynthian_dude · · Score: 0, Troll

    to believe that man could create a brain is absurd. Only god could create a brain. Computer programmers seem to have a delusion that they can make something in the image of gods creation. You can make games, wordprocessors, email programs, no problem, those are easy, but to believe you can make something capable of understanding the world in all its god given glory is heresy.

    1. Re:this is stupid by larryhappy · · Score: -1, Troll

      believing in Christ our lord does not exclude a person from being able to comment on the mistakes of science. The fact that you are unable to accept that only shows how ignorant you are. I happen to agree with him. It's fine to get computers to do simple tasks, or to do our bidding, but to believe that they could be brought up to our level is as silly as assigning human rights to insects. how can you possibly believe that anyone but god could create a brain? We can't even make a computer that's able to resist a simple computer virus, and you want to think one can be made that could equal our minds?

    2. Re:this is stupid by larryhappy · · Score: 0, Troll


      diamonds are part of the world, they aren't the same as man. The world was created to serve man, so it seems obvious that we would be able to imitate some aspects of it, but we can't make a human mind.

    3. Re:this is stupid by flynt · · Score: 0, Troll

      Why are we tampering with God's will? It people are getting cancer, doesn't it mean he wants them to? I think this is slippery slope. God obviously put cancers into the world because of His ultimate plan, do you really want to mess with God's plan? How are you rationalizing this? Why do you think you have a better plan than God?