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Google Cloud Just Changed the World
Imagine if you created a unique way to increase the performance of an enterprise software sales teams by helping them focus on leads that have a greater chance of closing through machine learning and artificial intelligence. You clean up a massive data-set, you run that in the cloud in less than a day, package it up as a service and sell the best clustered centroid to the highest bidder.
Within years a new generation of entrepreneurs will be taking their artificial ideas to the cloud, processing those ideas into real-world services and products and reselling those ideas online — and Google is leading the way to make that a reality even sooner than we imagined.
Jeff Hawkins, the inventor of the Palm Pilot and founder of the extraordinary AI firm Numenta, wrote a book in 2004 called On Intelligence. It was a fascinating critique of the trends of the day around artificial intelligence which focused primarily on rule-based interactions to mimic intelligence. Jeff and his team have proposed a more biological analogy for driving true artificial intelligence based on the human brain inter-workings of sparse distributed representations or SDRs.
