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Crossposted from the AI Alignment Forum. May contain more technical jargon than usual.
Jeff Hawkins gets full credit for getting me first interested in the idea that neuroscience might lead to artificial general intelligence an idea which gradually turned into an all-consuming hobby, and more recently a new job. I m not alone in finding him inspiring. Andrew Ng claimed
here that Hawkins helped convince him, as a young professor, that a simple scaled-up learning algorithm could reach Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). (Ironically, Hawkins scoffs at the deep neural nets built by Ng and others Hawkins would say: Yes yes, a simple scaled-up learning algorithm can reach AGI, but not