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Re:Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing
on Monday July 21, 2014 @04:14AM (#8062923)
I believe the basic building blocks (prediction, pattern recognition, attention, etc.) give rise to the higher-level phenomenon that you mentioned. I think we need to first understand those fundamental principles, and we'll be able to infer most of the rest from that point.
Emergent phenomenon can seem complicated and impossible to understand, but the mechanisms that give rise to them are usually simple (for example, evolution creating diverse and intricate life).
Re:Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing
on Monday July 21, 2014 @04:08AM (#8062910)
"Why would we continue to file patents on work that is going to be open source? The principle reason is to protect the NuPIC community. For example, outside developers could work on similar concepts without becoming part of the open source community. They could seek patents on their own work, making it proprietary and blocking progress of open source NuPIC developers. By keeping our patent portfolio current, we retain the ability to protect the NuPIC community from these threats. In other words, by holding patents on the work, we are able to protect the whole community from others who might seek to wall off their work through patents. In addition to filing select patents going forward, we also will evaluate other measures that would enhance patent protection for the NuPIC community."
Since this is a long-term project, it's more important that Numenta is able to protect the community it is building from patent trolls, and this is one approach to doing that.
King's Assembly is now wireless – a keyboard, mouse, and joystick in one
Meet the man building an AI that mimics our neocortex
To Those Who Want To Drop Out of School
An Elusive Fly
Intelligent Interfaces
Quantity and Quality
Quantity and Quality
Re:Ask PG: How would you fill out a YC application with YC as your idea?
on Saturday January 18, 2014 @12:18AM (#7080184)
How would you comment on a "Ask HN" submission asking HN how pg would fill out a YC application with YC as his idea?
Re:Emergent Intelligence
on Thursday August 08, 2013 @11:34PM (#6183607)
The most concrete version of my point is that I don't think the most powerful AI we'll create will have, for instance, a human-coded algorithm for detecting faces. Instead, it'll have the ability to read electrical signals from a camera and understand the changing patterns in them, including the presence of faces. This ability to understand changing patterns would be due to "simpler" rules than the rules specifically designed to understand faces.
So yes, a general purpose learning algorithm, using the correct paradigm, would learn to think in a way as powerful as we do. And it'll do so in a way that its programmers would never be able to predict.
In the same vein, I would say that Google search results is an emerging phenomena, albeit not quite as interesting as general purpose intelligence. This is because it's intractable to predict what Google will return for certain queries, even if we know all of its rules. Keep in mind that there are degrees of emergence, it's not black and white. (On the other hand, I don't think Google's algorithm is as "simple" as it originally was, but that's for another discussion.)
Re:Emergent Intelligence
on Thursday August 08, 2013 @05:08PM (#6181938)
Actually, there's a growing amount of evidence that there's a single, general-purpose algorithm in the human brain that gives rise to intelligence. For one, there's the fact that every part of the brain looks and behaves the same. There's also the fact that the brain is very plastic in what it learns – the auditory cortex can learn to "see" if we were to rewire the signals from the eyes from the visual cortex to the auditory cortex. It's very unlikely that our brain is hard-wired to recognize faces, for instance, but rather that it learns to do so using this generic learning algorithm.
I urge you to watch Andrew Ng's talk that I linked to in the post, and read On Intelligence (http://www.amazon.com/On-Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/080507...) by Jeff Hawkins, a book that totally changed the way I look at intelligent behavior.
Emergent Intelligence
Re:Wild Ideas
on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @04:31AM (#6165450)
If we keep writing down common sense datums until 2100, we can make computers as smart as people.
We learn more about brains and making smart computers, but we seem to have run out of major architectural innovations -- better ones won't make a huge difference. The big stumbling block seems to be how much "common sense" a system knows, like that things tend to fall down when you bump them. One group has been writing these down for fifteen years with moderate success; a century more effort may be plenty.
This seems like a really inefficient way to go about it.
Re:Show HN: Term.app, a terminal + shell replacement for Mac
on Thursday June 27, 2013 @02:20PM (#5953836)
Quite a simple yet innovative idea. Now if it has some essential features like tabs for quick switching between different current directories, command history, and a beautiful interface, it could actually replace my default terminal app. Great start though!
Re:What people are googling in real time
on Thursday June 13, 2013 @08:56PM (#5877720)
I used this to make a screensaver out of it: https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver
Re:What people are googling in real time
on Thursday June 13, 2013 @08:42PM (#5877662)
Ooh, I would love this in screensaver form!
Re:Productivity hacks of a startup dad
on Tuesday May 28, 2013 @02:04AM (#5778378)
The part I found most useful:
Recently, I have been practicing a new time management technique and I am calling it the “Minimum Viable Daily Tasks”. Here is how it works: Choose the minimum amount of work that needs to be done everyday so that you have a big smile on your face when you are heading home in the evening. If you accomplish anything more then it is a bonus.
The ‘six strike’ Copyright Alert System is now in place
Re:Ersatz - Deep neural networks in the cloud
on Thursday January 17, 2013 @01:07PM (#5074029)
Demo demo demo!
Re:Developer Auction out of beta; accepting developers from all backgr...
on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @05:15PM (#5069379)
I recently got hired through Developer Auction, and I just want to say that it was a really great experience. +1 from me :)
Re:Introducing Graph Search
on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @01:49PM (#5062023)
Well hopefully with enough data, it can automatically know that you don't care about your grandma's sushi preferences, and deemphasize that information when you search.
Re:Introducing Graph Search
on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @01:45PM (#5061987)
Try it in Incognito?
Re:Introducing Graph Search
on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @01:44PM (#5061973)
Well for one, it seems like a great way to browse Facebook content using natural language, rather that mouse clicks and page surfing. I like the idea of saying "give me pictures that I like taken in my hometown with my brother", rather than clicking through a bunch of filters.
I for one welcome any new natural language interface that can replace and improve on click interactions.
Re:Supreme Court to consider if silence can be evidence of guilt
on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @01:15AM (#5058999)
I actually thought the headline was a joke or a misrepresentation. Wow.
Re:Kippt collects pretty useful links
on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @06:24PM (#5034211)
That's great to hear! I would suggest you consider those people who are trying to portray a public profile of links that reflect their interests, so a good profile view would reflect that intention :)