He claims that the neocortex is basically a hierarchical memory system able to detect temporal and spatial patterns. Jeff Hawkins, and his company Numenta, are now trying to move forward and implementing this "neocortical algorithm" as software running on a computer.
I enjoyed a lot reading it and I am trying now to read the technical papers. So far it looks like a good model, specially for computer vision systems, but it's not yet clear to me how to solve problems from other cognitive areas such as language processing or planning.
More posts on that for the coming weeks!
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