Book review: "A Thousand Brains" by Jeff Hawkins

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Jeff Hawkins gets full credit for getting me first interested in the idea that neuroscience might lead to artificial general intelligence--an idea which gradually turned into an all-consuming hobby, and more recently a new job. I'm not alone in finding him inspiring. Andrew Ng claimed [here](https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2014/08/28/interview-inside-google-brain-founder-andrew-ngs-plans-to-transform-baidu/?sh=102a616640a4) that Hawkins helped convince him, as a young professor, that a simple scaled-up learning algorithm could reach Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). (Ironically, Hawkins scoffs at the deep neural nets built by Ng and others--Hawkins would say: "Yes yes, a simple scaled-up learning algorithm can reach AGI, but not *that* learning algorithm!!")

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• [1] https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/ixZLTmFfnKRbaStA5/book-review-a-thousand-brains-by-jeff-hawkins