By Sandra Blakeslee, Jeff Hawkins
ISBN-10: 1429900458
ISBN-13: 9781429900454
From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a brand new and compelling thought of intelligence, mind functionality, and the way forward for clever machines
Jeff Hawkins, the guy who created the PalmPilot, Treo shrewdpermanent mobile, and different hand held units, has reshaped our courting to pcs. Now he stands able to revolutionize either neuroscience and computing in a single stroke, with a brand new figuring out of intelligence itself.
Hawkins develops a robust idea of the way the human mind works, explaining why desktops aren't clever and the way, in line with this new conception, we will eventually construct clever machines.
The mind isn't really a working laptop or computer, yet a reminiscence process that shops reviews in a fashion that displays the real constitution of the area, remembering sequences of occasions and their nested relationships and making predictions in accordance with these stories. it really is this memory-prediction process that kinds the root of intelligence, belief, creativity, or even consciousness.
In an interesting variety that may captivate audiences from the basically curious to the pro scientist, Hawkins exhibits how a transparent knowing of the way the mind works will ensure that us to construct clever machines, in silicon, that would exceed our human skill in brilliant ways.
Written with acclaimed technology author Sandra Blakeslee, On Intelligence provides to totally transfigure the probabilities of the know-how age. it's a landmark booklet in its scope and readability.