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A Thousand Brains

A New Theory of Intelligence

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A Thousand Brains

By: Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword
Narrated by: Jamie Renell, Richard Dawkins
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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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©2021 Jeff Hawkins (P)2021 Basic Books
Biological Sciences Computer Science Science Human Brain Thought-Provoking Artificial Intelligence Natural Language Processing
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Fascinating Brain Theory • Accessible Scientific Explanations • Excellent Narration • Thought-provoking Concepts
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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.

Reference Frames all the way down

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

GroundBreaking

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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.

Very good but very speculative

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

Great listen.

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

Great execution!

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The discussion on the structure and the functions of the brain were fascinating. I was, however, less interested in the authors musings on how his work should factor into artificial intelligence.

Great until the 3rd part

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It was a pleasure to listen to this audiobook. Opening my mind to how the brain works and how that impacts us in everything.

Highly recommend this book

Very Insightful Reading

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This was a great read that provided many Imintriguing theories. It provided both hope and potential sadness for the future.

A Thousand Brains

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I usually read/listen to two or three non-fiction books a year and was surprised at how quickly I finished it. It is completely engrossing and enlightening. Like most theoretical physics books and philosophy I do not have the expertise to truly understand or varify the information provided. This books message has that simple instinctive ring of truth that usually soon accompanies common knowledge.

Fascinating

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I was hoping to get more coverage of the Thousand Brains theory in the book, but it's still worth a listen.

Great Read for Intriguing New Ideas

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