Bill Gates is supporting Jeff Hawkins, co-inventor of the PalmPilot, in developing AI software inspired by the human brain.
Numenta, Hawkins' firm, received $2.7 million from the Gates Foundation to work on the Thousand Brains Project.
Hawkins believes that AI should mimic the neocortex to achieve breakthroughs in machine intelligence.
Large language models like ChatGPT are moving away from brain-inspired designs towards sheer size and scope.
Hawkins aims to move beyond transformer models and attract researchers to explore brain-based AI further.
Source: https://www.semafor.com/article/06/21/2024/bill-gates-backs-an-ai-wildcard
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