Marvin Minsky asked his first-year undergraduate student to connect his TV with a computer and make the computer to describe what it sees. At first glance this is an easy task – even children would be able to do it. However, this is a problem that remains unresolved even forty years from the first attempt.
Stefan Buijsman in his book “Pluses and Minuses” explores the world of mathematics combining it with knowledge from history, psychology, and philosophy.
The summer is already in full swing, and so are the summer holidays. Can you image a perfect summer holiday break without a book? We certainly can’t, and so we recommend five books for curious minds to indulge in this summer.
Jeff Hawkins is the founder of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, a nonprofit scientific research facility, in 2002, and Numenta, a machine intelligence company, in 2005. Hawkins is currently Chief Scientist at Numenta, where he leads a team in efforts to reverse-engineer the neocortex and enable machine intelligence technology based on brain theory.
This is a great conversation with prof. Daniel Kahneman and Yuval Noah Harari about Global Trends Shaping Humankind moderated by Kara Swisher as a part of the 2021 Nexus Online Summit, organized by the American Friends of The Hebrew University.