{"id":156,"date":"2004-12-01T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/12\/01\/my-current-read-on-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2004-12-01T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T23:44:00","slug":"my-current-read-on-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/12\/01\/my-current-read-on-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"My Current Read – On Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Order<\/a>I’m reading a great book that’s got me very excited. It’s called On Intelligence<\/i><\/a>, and it’s by the guy who invented the Palm Pilot and the Treo, Jeff Hawkins<\/a>. I got my copy as an advance readers’ galley from the big BEA book show last summer, and I’m finally getting around to reading it. You can get yours from Amazon &#151 just click the little cover over there.<\/p>\n

It’s ostensibly a book about human and machine intelligence and how they work or could work, but it’s also a great little philosophy lesson. His basic premise is that intelligence and understanding are created when you have a system that can anticipate patterns by recognizing them and coding them hierarchically as invariant models. It explains a lot of complex stuff pretty elegantly, in that Occam’s Razor<\/a> sense, and it makes a lot more sense in 100 pages than 100 words, so if you care anything about how the brain works, or the history of AI<\/a>, just go get the book and read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m reading a great book that’s got me very excited. It’s called On Intelligence, and it’s by the guy who invented the Palm Pilot and the Treo, Jeff Hawkins. I got my copy as an advance readers’ galley from the big BEA book show last summer, and I’m finally getting around to reading it. You … <\/p>\n

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