Fwd: Jeff Hawkins

I have talked to his second-in-command, Donna Dubinsky. In fact she guest lectured for my neuroventures class, about their AI/brain startup, Numenta (she is CEO).

Off the record comments:

One key issue with their work is that it's a model that attempts to mimic brain maps -- but again, as with the European Human Brain Project, we don't yet have brain maps. So there are a lot of assumptions built into their models. Perhaps as a result, their models haven't done much. I think Numenta finally kind of gave up on trying to develop big hits with their Al engine, and open sourced everything, hoping others would sign on: http://numenta.org/ But I'm not sure any major outputs have happened yet.

Best,
Ed

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From: Ed Boyden
Subject: Re: Jeff Hawkins
Date: August 6, 2015 at 8:33:31 AM PDT
To: Joichi Ito

I have talked to his second-in-command, Donna Dubinsky. In fact she guest lectured for my neuroventures class, about their AI/brain startup, Numenta (she is CEO).

Off the record comments:

One key issue with their work is that it's a model that attempts to mimic brain maps -- but again, as with the European Human Brain Project, we don't yet have brain maps. So there are a lot of assumptions built into their models. Perhaps as a result, their models haven't done much. I think Numenta finally kind of gave up on trying to develop big hits with their Al engine, and open sourced everything, hoping others would sign on: http://numenta.org/ But I'm not sure any major outputs have happened yet.

Best,
Ed