If you think that the skirmish between two competing IT vendors on social media can become inelegant, you have never seen neuroscientists and philosophers argue about consciousness. That can get real ugly.

“String theory looks pretty much dead as a theory of everything. Which, if true, clears the field for non-string theories of everything.” https://t.co/L50IrbTnku https://t.co/A0iytiFXNb

.@JeffCHawkins recalls how Intel reacted when, in 1992, he suggested that the futur would be dominated by handheld devices.

I learned first-hand: it can take many years to be proven right. You should never feed on that desire. Other people’s validation would not be your driver. https://t.co/WDB34M6teO

I wonder how many #ML practitioners have read about @JeffCHawkins’ Thousand Brains theory. If you dream about AGI (and I met a few that do), or you just want to consider a contrarian way to design #AI, you should take a deeper look. https://t.co/4kGk9fkAmq

I wonder what @danieldennett thinks about @JeffCHawkins’s theory of the Thousand Brains. If thinking is a movement through a myriad of interconnected reference frames, what is consciousness? The overarching reference frame that connects all the others? Or still a bag of tricks?

Now intersect it with this new regulation:

China “will ban minors from playing videogames entirely between Monday and Thursday. On the other three days of the week, and on public holidays, they will be only permitted to play between 8pm and 9pm”

https://t.co/SIGrc9IUK9

The lack of dedicated #AI expertise at the LoB/BU level is one of the biggest constraints to innovation within an org. Cross-function, company-wide data science and ML engineering sounds great in theory. In practice, it severely impacts potential and speed.

“The number of companies that set a new market-entry plan and don’t plan for the reaction of the competitors is about 90 percent.” https://t.co/8fmJC0JgY9

I’m reading about this new incredibile theory of the brain by @JeffCHawkins and the @Numenta neuroscientists. If network speed wasn’t an issue, I wonder if this could be reproducible at world scale via a P2P approach.

All our computers become columns of a huge brain. https://t.co/BBxP2u6JwL

@rationalpsyche Got it. Thanks for sharing!