A Thousand Brains

A New Theory of Intelligence

De: Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword

Narrado por: Jamie Renell, Richard Dawkins

A best-selling author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence that will revolutionize our understanding of the brain and the future of AI.

For all of neuroscience's advances, we've made little progress on its biggest question: How do simple cells in the brain create intelligence? Jeff Hawkins and his team discovered that the brain uses map-like structures to build a model of the world - not just one model, but hundreds of thousands of models of everything we know. This discovery allows 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. A Thousand Brains heralds a revolution in the understanding of intelligence. It is a big-think book, in every sense of the word.

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Explains the development of the neocortex based on logic evolutionary paths. Explains Vernon Mountcastles replicated cortical columns' ability to model and represent all forms of information used to think, reason, predict and plan. Does not explain consciousness, but I can do that with the building blocks provided.

GroundBreaking

Best up to date analysis of how the brain and intelligence works to provide a model of the world around us.

Very good but very speculative

I wish he had focused more on detailing the mechanics of the neural interactions and of his general theory. I wonder if he had seen chatpgpt-4 before publishing if he would’ve been more enthusiastic about LLMs. This book only spends a few paragraphs on LLMs and I’m not sure that it what it does have to say about them is entirely accurate.

Other than that very informative, but a much longer road to AGI than I suspect we have. He speculates within the next few decades. I think we’re under a decade out in super intelligent general AI. Gpt-4 is more educated and accurate than the average adult human already.

Great listen.

this book should be a must read for all high school and college students. loved it

Great execution!

Detailed, thorough, unbiased, informative, inspirational, thought-provoking, exploratory, enlightening, and addictive. I love books like this.

Mind blowing

Jeff Hawkins has done it again, giving us more insight into the functioning of the brain. He goes all the way this time laying a convincing foundation for the underlying algorithm of the neocortex. He also goes further - much much further to the implications and future of humanity. A truly eye opening and potentially game changing read.

Interesting concept

The author covers a lot of material, ideas and analogies. It was more than I expected.

Mind expanding and mind evolving

I find the idea that the brain contains many many areas each creating and enhancing models of boots of the world around us and then linking to make a fuller and more complex model is very exciting to me.
While he transitions to ideas that may be considered political, I would agree with him that they are basically fact based and certainly thought provoking.

Thought Provoking

Great book that’s read well. Would definitely recommend this to anyone interested in neuroscience or machine learning.

valuable information on both AI and intelligence

I was compelled to share my positive experience with the book after seeing so many negative reviews.

Ironically, the negative reviews seemingly come from the very same dangerous phenomenons of intelligence that are described in the book, fascinating!