The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
The Biological Path Towards Strong AI - Matthew Taylor - TWiML Talk #71
22 Nov 2017
This week, we’ll be featuring a series of shows recorded from Strange Loop, a great developer-focused conference that takes place every year right in my backyard! The conference is a multi-disciplinary melting pot of developers and thinkers across a variety of fields, and we’re happy to be able to bring a bit of it to those of you who couldn’t make it in person! In this episode, I speak with Matthew Taylor, Open Source Manager at Numenta. You might remember hearing a bit about Numenta from an interview I did with Francisco Weber of Cortical.io, for TWiML Talk #10, a show which remains the most popular show on the podcast. Numenta is basically trying to reverse-engineer the neocortex, and use what they learn to develop a neocortical theory for biological and machine intelligence called Hierarchical Temporal Memory. Matt joined me at the conference to discuss his talk “The Biological Path Towards Strong AI”. In our conversation, we discuss the basics of HTM, it’s biological inspiration, and how it differs from traditional neural network models including deep learning. This is a Nerd Alert show, and after you listen I would encourage you to check out the conversation with Francisco which we’ll link to in the show notes. The notes for this show can be found at twimlai.com/talk/71 For series information, visit twimlai.com/stloop
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