Followed the Numenta work from the beginning. Interesting, but never saw it close to being ready for real application. Now a deeper plunge. Not just using the inspiration of the brain, like in neural nets, but using their plan directly. And a considerable investment: " ... IBM Tests Mobile Computing Pioneer’s Controversial Brain Algorithms ... IBM is testing a contentious idea for making computers more intelligent by trying to copy mechanisms from the human brain. ... "
" ... For more than a decade Jeff Hawkins, founder of mobile computing company Palm, has dedicated his time and fortune to a theory meant to explain the workings of the human brain, and provide a blueprint for a powerful new kind of artificial intelligence software. But Hawkins’s company, Numenta, has made little impact on the tech industry, even as machine learning has become central to companies such as Google. .. "
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