The Gates Foundation backs an AI wildcard

- 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 …

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