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Podcast: The Jim Rutt Show
Episode: EP 281 Jeff Hawkins and Viviane Clay on the Thousand Brains Theory
Description: Jim talks with Jeff Hawkins and Viviane Clay about the Thousand Brains Project and Jeff's book A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence. They discuss Mountcastle's theory of the neocortex's universal algorithm, cortical columns & their structure, learning modules in AI sensory systems, reprogramming of the neocortex, the 6 layers of cortex, mini-columns & macro-columns, the visual cascade, reference frames as essential for knowledge representation, "voting" for perceptual consensus, how the project differs from deep learning & LLM approaches, James Gibson's concept of affordances, the "Jennifer Aniston neuron" idea, current state of the Monty project, solving fundamental problems vs making impressive demos, avoiding "o...