<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>jeffrey E. &lt;jeevacation@gmail.com&gt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:
To:</td><td>Thursday, August 6, 2015 3:39 PM
Joichi Ito</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re: Jeff Hawkins</td></tr></table>

i think ibm took numenta in house

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:36 AM, =oichi Ito <██████████████ <mailto:██████████████> > wrote:

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> From: Ed Boyden <██████████████████████████████████> >
> Subject: Re: Jeff Hawkins
> Date: August 6, 2015 at 8:33:31 AM PDT
> To: Joichi Ito ████████████████████████████████████████
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> I have talked to his second-in-command, Donna Dubinsky. In fact =he
> guest lectured for my neuroventures class, about their AI/brain
> startup, Numenta (she is CEO).
>
> Off the record comments:
>
> One key issue with their work is that it's a model that attempts t=
> mimic brain maps -- but again, as with the European Human Brain
> Project, we don't yet have brain maps. So there are a lot of=br> > assumptions built into their models.
>
> Perhaps as a result, their models haven't done much. I think=Numenta
> finally kind of gave up on trying to develop big hits with their AI
>
> http://numenta.org/
> But I'm not sure any major outputs have happened yet.
>
> Best,
> Ed
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Joichi Ito <█████████████████<██████████████████████> > wrote:
>> Have you guys talked to Jeff Hawkins?
>>
>> Is his AI/brain stuff interesting?
>>
>> - Joi
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