The following is a conversation with Jeff Hawkins.

He's the founder of the Redwood Center

for Theoretical and Neuroscience in 2002

and Newmenta in 2005.

In his 2004 book titled On Intelligence

and in the research before and after,

he and his team have worked to reverse engineer

the New York Cortex and propose artificial intelligence

architectures, approaches, and ideas

that are inspired by the human brain.

These ideas include hierarchical top-of-memory,

HTM from 2004, and New Work,

the Thousand's Brain's Theory of Intelligence

from 2017, 18, and 19.

Jeff's ideas have been an inspiration to many

who have looked for progress beyond the current

machine learning approaches,

but they have also received criticism

for lacking a body of empirical evidence

supporting the models.

This is always a challenge when seeking more

than small incremental steps forward in AI.

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