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Jeff Hawkins
Neuroscience Pioneer
Jeff Hawkins appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, startups & business, geopolitics. Lex describes Jeff Hawkins as neuroscientist.
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2021
1 appearance

Lex Fridman Podcast / August 8, 2021 / Episode #208
Jeff Hawkins: The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins is a neuroscientist and cofounder of Numenta, a neuroscience research company.
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Will AI prevent the self-destruction of human civilization?
Jeff Hawkins and Lex Fridman discuss will ai prevent the self-destruction of human civilization?.
2019
1 appearance

Lex Fridman Podcast / July 1, 2019 / Episode #0
Jeff Hawkins: Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins is the founder of Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002 and Numenta in 2005. In his 2004 book titled On Intelligence, and in his research before and after, he and his team have worked to reverse-engineer the neocortex and propose artificial intelligence architectures, approaches, and ideas that are inspired by the human brain. These ideas include Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) from 2004 and The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence from 2017. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook , Medium , or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.
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Jeff Hawkins is the founder of Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002 and Numenta in 2005. In his 2004 book titled On Intelligence, and in his research before and after, he and his team have worked to reverse-engineer the neocortex and propose artificial intelligence architectures, approaches, and ideas that are inspired by the human brain. These ideas include Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) from 2004 and The Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence from 2017. If you would like to get more information about this podcast go to https://lexfridman.com/ai or connect with @lexfridman on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook , Medium , or YouTube where you can watch the video versions of these conversations.
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Jeff Hawkins
Neuroscience Pioneer
Jeff Hawkins appears on the Lex Fridman Podcast across artificial intelligence, startups & business, geopolitics. Lex describes Jeff Hawkins as neuroscientist.
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2
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July 1, 2019 to August 8, 2021
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