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Title: going nowhere
Review: The best thing that Hawkins can do is (continue to) funnel some of his wealth to real scientists doing real research on neuroscience and cognitive science. Him writing books is not going to help the field.I came away feeling like Hawkins wrote a book to drum up interest in his company. The company will undoubtedly turn out some tech product that falls (far) short of Hawkins "real intelligence" (a *really* ridiculous choice of words, by the way).If a nobody had written this book, it might not have been published. If Hawkins had submitted his work (in chunks) to a peer-reviewed scientific journal, I am certain that it would have been soundly rejected for making broad claims with little evidence. Overbroad, overly optimistic claims were a large reason that classical AI was disappointing to many, why neural nets have fallen in and out of favor repeatedly, and why Hawkins interest in cognitive science is worth only the research dollars he can shell out.
