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From YouTube: Introduction | A Thousand Brains by Jeff Hawkins
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A Thousand Brains: A new theory of intelligence by Jeff Hawkins tackles one of life’s greatest mysteries: what is intelligence and how does the brain create it? In this video, Jeff talks to Numenta VP of Marketing Christy Maver about the book, offering a preview of what readers can expect, why he wrote the book, and what each of the book’s three sections cover. (Part 1: A New Understanding of the Brain, Part 2: Machine Intelligence, and Part 3: Human Intelligence.) #athousandbrains
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B
A
And
I
am
here
to
talk
with
jeff
today
about
his
new
book,
a
thousand
brains,
a
new
theory
of
intelligence
which
comes
out
march
2nd.
So
this
video
will
be
an
overview
about
the
book
and
we'll
be
putting
out
some
more
videos
that
go
in
depth
about
the
content
in
the
book,
but
jeff
you
and
I
spoke
about
a
year
ago
january.
2020
a
lot
has
changed
since
then
for
sure,
but
we
talked
about
the
book
you
were
in
the
process
of
writing
it.
A
B
And
so
those
have
been
all
printed
up
in
in
neuroscience
papers
which
have
done
very
well
but
they're
hard
to
read.
Most
people
even
neuroscientists
have
trouble
reading
papers
like
this
they're,
very
technical
papers,
and
so
the
ideas
can
be
understood
by
anyone
and
so,
but
they
kind
of
require
a
book
length
treatment
to
do
that.
So
the
book
is
really
is
to
to
describe
to
anybody
what
you
know
how
their
brain
works.
What
does
it
mean
to
be
intelligent?
B
What
is
actually
going
on
your
head
when
you're
thinking
and
seeing
stuff
in
detail?
I
think
this
is
important.
I
mean
it's
important
everyone.
Almost
everyone
is
curious
about
this,
and
and
as
I've
talked
about
in
the
book,
there's
a
lot
of
implications
for
this
theory
of
what
we've
learned
that
that
it.
It
really
covers
a
broad
range
of
topics,
because
once
we
know
how
the
brain
works,
what
it
means
to
be
intelligent,
it
impacts
how
we
think
about
artificial
intelligence,
about
humanity
and
about
our
future.
A
B
It
wasn't
obvious
up
front
when
we
started
writing
the
book.
When
I
started
writing
the
book.
I
really
wanted
to
cover
the
theory
and
like
okay,
what
have
we
learned
about
the
brain?
What
is
intelligence
how's,
the
brain?
What's
going
on
when
you're
thinking
and
so
on?
But
then
there
are
these
other
implications
which
are
really
profound
in
some
ways,
and
so
today
we're
on
the
verge
of
building
intelligent
machines
in
the
world.
B
It's
going
to
be
a
very
important
technology
in
the
21st
century
and
what
we've
learned
about
the
brain
tells
us
a
lot
about
ai.
It
tells
us
first
of
all
why
today's
ai
is
not
intelligent,
what
we
have
to
do
to
make
it
intelligent,
and
it
also
tells
us
about
the
risks
and
benefits
of
ai
that
are
different
than
most
people
think,
and
so
I
felt
that
was
the
second
section
I
was
like.
B
We
should
really
should
address
this
major
technological
issue,
because
we
have
something
important
to
say
about
it
and
then
finally,
the
last
section
it
is
partly
personal,
but
I
think
it's
also
interesting
to
almost
everybody.
It
was
really
like.
Okay,
if
we,
if
we
think
about
ourselves
humans
as
an
intelligent
species,
our
intelligence,
which
makes
us
unique
really
nothing
else-
is
unique
about
us
as
a
species
and
all
the
things
we've
ever
done
in
life
from
arts
and
literature
and
science,
all
the
matter
of
the
brain
and
our
brain
and
how
it
works.
B
Well,
if
you
start
thinking
about
the
humans
this
way,
it
changes
the
way
you
think
about,
maybe
what
our
role
in
the
universe
is
and
what
we
should
be
doing
and
and
and
our
and
what's
different
about
us
and
what's
not
different
about
us.
So
in
the
last
section
of
the
book
I
address
things
such
as
why
you
know
what
false
beliefs,
what
how
do
we
know?
B
Things
are
true
and
not
true,
and
how
do
we
sometimes
things
are
false
and
what
we
can
do
about
that
and
and
how
to
think
about
humanity
going
forward.
So
it's
a
fairly
broad
brush
stroke
about
a
sort
of
philosophical
looking
given
you
know
what
intelligence
is
now
and
it's
not
what
most
people
think
it
is
and
and
given
we
know
that
and
that's
what
makes
us
special
as
a
as
a
species.
How
should
we?
What
might
we
do
differently
going
forward,
and
so
I
I
incorporate
all
this
under
this
one.
A
A
B
Yeah,
I
you
know
on
intelligence
was
a
book
I
wrote
about
15
years
ago.
It
was
my
first
book
and
in
that
we
we
described
I
described
like
I
wrote
it
with
sandra
blakely.
We
described
you
know
the
the
nature
of
the
brain
there's
different
parts.
What
part
is
really
responsible
for
intelligence
and
we
kind
of
laid
out
a
very
broad
idea
about
how
to
think
about
intelligence
as
a
predictive
model
of
the
world
and
all
that's
still
true,
but
we
didn't
understand
the
details
back
then
we
just
didn't
know.
B
I
I
couldn't
tell
you
exactly
how
it
worked.
I
was
like
okay,
there's,
a
lot
of
ideas
are
interesting
and
so
on
and
they're
probably
right,
but
you
know
the
the
concepts,
but
now
we
know
a
lot
of
the
details.
I
mean
we
really
down
to.
You,
know
the
neurons
and
parts
of
neurons
and
and
so
it's
a
much
more
complete
theory
than
we
laid
out
on
intelligence,
and
there
were
surprising
things
we
did
not
know
in
non-intelligence.
B
There's
a
there's,
some
real
surprising
discoveries,
which
you
had
no
idea
about
15
years
ago,
which
now
also
everything
clicks
together.
So
it's
kind
of
a
follow-on.
In
some
sense,
it's
not
a
it's.
Not
an
update
on
intelligence
is
not
intended
to
be
that
way.
It's
its
own
read,
but,
and
it
doesn't
conflict
with
on
intelligence.
It's
just
a
much.
B
No,
you
don't
you
don't
have
to
read
on
intelligence
at
all.
I
made
sure
that
I
make
sure
that
a
thousand
brains
is
a
book
that
anyone
pretty
much
anyone
can
read,
and
it's
and
they're
trying
to
make
it
easy.
We'll
walk
you
through
everything
from
beginning
to
end.
So
there's
very
little
assumptions
about
your
knowledge
about
the
brain
or
the
history
of
intelligence.