Building Brains to Understand the World's Data

Here's an related talk by Jeff Hawkins at Google, where he gets into his ideas about the structure of the brain, and what he's done to reconstruct it in software/hardware. [VIDEO]

What about this? Building Brains to Understand the World's Data (google tech talk): [VIDEO] The result is [LINK]

I think that Hawkins has a great summary on some things that are necessary for intelligence [0]. Personally I think the tie between motor actuation and sensory detection is one of the most important -- did a project on that in 2010. Motor-sensory link is essentially how all intelligence evolved. Even c.elegans has neurons to determine whether it should wiggle one way or another. On the surface he seems to be cramming a whole lot of "solutions" into his HTM (hierarchical temporal memory). HTM is an interesting implementation and the sparse coding is definitely a benefit. However I think he is focused too much on his baby and not on other techniques that may fulfill the necessary components more efficiently. That is just on the surface. With a product / research balance maybe we just aren't seeing all the cool things going on underneath in research, but it does seem like that research will be shoe-horned into HTM whether or not it is the best architecture. [0] [VIDEO] Starting at ~8m20s