Intelligence and the Brain: Recent Advances in Understanding How the Brain Works

How the brain creates intelligence is viewed by many as the greatest scientific quest of all time. We are living at the time when rapid progress is being made and a comprehensive theory of brain function is emerging. In this talk, Jeff Hawkins presents the big picture of what we know so far and then describes recent progress in a core issue: why neurons are arranged as they are in the neocortex, how this arrangement builds models of the world, and how these models make predictions and generate actions.

Speaker: Jeff Hawkins, Numenta Inc.