Name: How brain science will change computing
Uploaded: 2007-05-21T15:08:00Z
Duration: 19 min 58 s
Description: Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain -- to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

Treo creator Jeff Hawkins urges us to take a new look at the brain -- to see it not as a fast processor, but as a memory system that stores and plays back experiences to help us predict, intelligently, what will happen next.

How brain science will change computing

The brain is not merely a fast processor but a powerful memory system that predicts what will happen next. Despite mountains of neuroscience data, most research lacks a guiding framework to connect the dots. Real intelligence, he argues, comes not from behavioral mimicry but from the brain’s constant stream of predictions, like knowing the next word in a sentence before it’s spoken. Building machines that mimic this predictive memory could usher in a wave of true artificial intelligence.