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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 612.82 EAN: 9780805078534 ISBN: 0805078533 Label: Holt Paperbacks Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: August 01, 2005 Publisher: Holt Paperbacks Release Date: July 14, 2005 Studio: Holt Paperbacks Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: Jeff Hawkins, the high-tech success story behind PalmPilots and the Redwood Neuroscience Institute, does a lot of thinking about thinking. In On Intelligence Hawkins juxtaposes his two loves--computers and brains--to examine the real future of artificial intelligence. In doing so, he unites two fields of study that have been moving uneasily toward one another for at least two decades. Most people think that computers are getting smarter, and that maybe someday, they'll be as smart as we humans are. But Hawkins explains why the way we build computers today won't take us down that path. He shows, using nicely accessible examples, that our brains are memory-driven systems that use our five senses and our perception of time, space, and consciousness in a way that's totally unlike the relatively simple structures of even the most complex computer chip. Readers who gobbled up Ray Kurzweil's (The Age of Spiritual Machines and Steven Johnson's Mind Wide Open will find more intriguing food for thought here. Hawkins does a good job of outlining current brain research for a general audience, and his enthusiasm for brains is surprisingly contagious. --Therese Littleton Product Description: From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a new and compelling theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machines Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself.Hawkins develops a powerful theory of how the human brain works, explaining why computers are not intelligent and how, based on this new theory, we can finally build intelligent machines.The brain is not a computer, but a memory system that stores experiences in a way that reflects the true structure of the world, remembering sequences of events and their nested relationships and making predictions based on those memories. It is this memory-prediction system that forms the basis of intelligence, perception, creativity, and even consciousness.In an engaging style that will captivate audiences from the merely curious to the professional scientist, Hawkins shows how a clear understanding of how the brain works will make it possible for us to build intelligent machines, in silicon, that will exceed our human ability in surprising ways.Written with acclaimed science writer Sandra Blakeslee, On Intelligence promises to completely transfigure the possibilities of the technology age. It is a landmark book in its scope and clarity. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A chimerical project based on an extremely interesting interpretation of brain functioningDuring the past half-millennium the history of anatomy documents the peculiar custom of using the most advanced technology of each era as the definite model of the human brain. The first match was with clockworks during the sixteenth century; then with the steam engine, in the nineteenth century; one hundred years later with telephone switchboards in the first half of the twentieth century, and in the recent decades, naturally and expectedly, with electronic computers. However sound they might have ... Read More Rating:  - Bigger, Faster, StrongerAll of human intelligence exists in a 2ml. six sheet layered region of the brain called the neo-cortex as large as a dinner napkin when laid out side to side. This region processes information regardless of sensory form, and is present in all mammals to varying sizes; most of us are lucky to have the largest among all mammals (believers of a specific section of the political spectrum are still experiencing development of this part of the brain). All incoming sensory information from sight, smell, ... Read More Rating: - Great Book!This is a great book. I think the ideas here will change the world! Rating: - Interesting, albeit silently deterministic point of viewExcellent philosophy on the intelligence algorithm in mammals, neatly condensed into a computer-programmable structure. My primary gripe is that the author blindly, almost pretentiously, assumes that all intelligence comes from within the brain, and that everything is contained and deterministic. I don't blame him, but he could have spent at least a sentence acknowledging the possibility of self-determinism, rather than poorly debunking it. I think there is still potential for a continuum ... Read More Rating: - Fascinating Read, Full of InsightsThis is an excellent and intriguiging book. I have been studying this topic quite a lot recently and the most interesting aspects were the realization of the internal structures of the cortex. Also, the idea that each of the senses just sends a "pattern stream" of information that can be interpreted by the brain using the same algorithm--no matter what type it is--was a revelation. Some of his explanations of how the cortex layers, V1, V2, V4 and IT worked as a little hazy but perhaps I just dropped ... Read More 
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