Article:		An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Subject:		Jeff Hawkin's book "On Intelligence" is a must read
Date:		2005-10-24 11:05:33
From:		curth
If you are generally interested in the subject of intelligent machines, then *run* (don't walk) to Amazon and pick up a copy of Jeff Hawkin's (of Palm fame) new book "On Intelligence". You'll only be sorry if you don't! Seriously, its a seminal work destined to change forever the way we think about intelligence, the brain, and intelligent machines. Audible.com also has it on audiobook so you can listen while you commute.

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• Jeff Hawkin's book "On Intelligence" is a must read
  2005-10-24 11:41:37  salamon [View]
  
  
  While I agree that anyone interested in computer intelligence (or human intelligence, for that matter) should read this book, I think it remains to be seen how seminal it's going to be. He admits himself that a lot of his ideas have not been tested yet, although unlike many other hypotheses, his at least are testable.
  
  I certainly hope he's right, because if so it should make most AI problems much, much easier once the details are worked out. His basic idea is that the human (and mammalian) cortex uses a single algorithm for all of it's various processing and learning. If that's the case, then once it's been deciphered we should be able to apply it to many different problems with relative ease.