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We often hear of AI and machine learning using neural networks and deep learning algorithms. In parallel, there are many other efforts being deployed to understand the brain to try and mimic it. This is a series of articles in IEEE Spectrum that provide just the right level of technical insights to help you understand where we stand on the matter. Many hours of interesting reading ahead!

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This article provides a short summary of this new book, homo prospectus. It sheds light into how our brain works and why it is in fact prediction machine, always predicting the future. 

I wrote about a similar book in the past, On Intelligence, which I also strongly recommend.

http://fmcs.digital/blog/on-intelligence-mustread-to-understand-frontal-cortex-architecture-what-makes-us-intelligent/ 

For more on intelligence posts I wrote, look here: http://fmcs.digital/blog/tag/intelligence/ 

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Mind control is the last frontier. We are not there yet but initiatives like this show the potential.

Perfect Sunday morning reading which is guaranteed to make you reflect and ponder for the next weeks. The article is a typical New Yorker one, very well researched and written. So captivating that it got me to start reading the book which appears to be as captivating and surprisingly easy to read and understand. I love those finds and have the feeling this book will be the best complement to "Singularity is Near" and "On Intelligence" that I wrote about in the past.

- book "singularity is near": http://fmcs.digital/blog/singularity-is-near-an-essential-read-to-understand-why-technology-evolves-so-fast/ 

- book "on intelligence": http://fmcs.digital/blog/on-intelligence-mustread-to-understand-frontal-cortex-architecture-what-makes-us-intelligent/ 

- article "Why the future does not need us": http://fmcs.digital/blog/why-the-future-doesnt-need-us-a-reminder-that-ai-may-have-a-bad-side-via-wired/ 

- related posts: http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses/?tag=Singularity+is+Near 

Jeff Hawkins is most well known for creating the palm pilot handheld device in the 1990s. He also is a very intelligent man and neuroscientist. He penned the Book On Intelligence (http://amzn.to/2c1GBdZ) which provides an explanation fo the architecture of the neurocortex and founded a company, numenta (www.numenta.com), to implement this architecture in software.

Jeff recently re-published a 1986 paper he wrote which attending Berkley University where he presents his theory. This blog post provides context and a link to the paper which should be read as it presents his theories very well. 

I wrote about other ideas and solutions from Jeff Hawkins before: 

http://sco.lt/6Mpg8H

http://sco.lt/4lqtfN 

Describes an artificial intelligence solution that monitors stock market and raises notifications when things are different than the predicted behaviour of the stock.

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Our brain is a massive prediction engine, based on the work that Jeff Hawkins has presented in his book On Intelligence http://amzn.to/2caWZuk 

Applications from this brain architecture theory have started to emerge with this stock market prediction being one of them.