MIT World » : Can a New Theory of the Neocortex Lead to Truly Intelligent Machines?
HTM(Hierarchical Temporal Memory)
This guy is pretty much describing a pattern recognition system that mimics the way our brains recognize patterns. This presentation is fairly simplistic in its discussion of it, but I can't wait for this to be the general way to think about things. A human interacting with this technology that does what our brain does in a very finite and nice way could probably lead to humans mimicking the end result of this technology.
When someone takes a drug, lets say a neurotransmitter mimic, we get all this extra activation. Extra patterns pop out of things that weren't necessarily there in the first place, but often the final result is seeing a pattern that even without the drug has a lot of legitimacy to the world around us. In a system that mimics our pattern recognition, but in an adjustable way, we, as humans, can adapt to better look at patterns that this system adapts to and adapt to them ourselves.
Also it could give us greater insight into how we can learn. For instance, given an equation that a person might see while learning to do some kind of low level math. (2+9=11)...we see 2 then + then 9 and then our brains give a high probability of the answer being 11. This is something not far from the ability of this technology and getting from just recognizing those numbers to the final answer has many steps that would become more easily modeled with this type of technology.
EXCITING!
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