Jeff Hawkins at Pc Forum: (Last night someone noted that his book index doesn't include Roger Penrose.)
"When I wrote the book, I didn't know how to build machines that work like the brain (Neuro Science). But now I do (based on mathematical modelling of Neo Cortex)."
The Neo Cortex (only mammals have it) is mainly "about" memory and prediction.
A Prediction (Mod El) implies the potential for Surprise.
It's all models of conditional probabilities. Time dimension is key. (Bayes Ian)
- Toy problem they are solving: image recognition.
Technology being called Hierarchical Temporal Memory
- sign up for announcement of his business at www.rni.org
Sounds like Neural Net-s, not sure whether it's as broad in scope as he makes it sound....