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born 1957 United States

Jeffrey Hawkins (born June 1, 1957) is the founder of Palm Computing (where he invented the Palm Pilot) and Handspring (where he invented the Treo). He subsequently turned to work on neuroscience, founding the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002.

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The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation. You and I are streaming data engines.

The cells in your head are reading these words. Think how remarkable that is.

A Thousand Brains (2021)

I do two things: I design mobile computers and I study brains.

The brain is an organ that builds models and makes creative predictions, but its models and predictions can as easily be specious as valid. Our brains are always looking at patterns and making analogies. If correct correlations cannot be found, the brain is more than happy to accept false ones. Pseudoscience, bigotry, faith, and intolerance are often rooted in false analogy.

On Intelligence (2004)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jeff Hawkins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.