#Hawkins map of consciousness image code#

The book, in first person, is told from the robotвЂ™s perspective. Kazuo IshiguroвЂ™s latest novel tells the story of a robot named Klara, programmed for empathy, who acts as an вЂњartificial friendвЂќ to a sick child. вЂњI love a good robot story,вЂќ Gates writes. A new book by tech entrepreneur Jeff Hawkins, one of the coinventors of the Palm Pilot, talks about how better understanding the brain could develop artificial general intelligence, or the ability of AI to learn and understand any task that humans can. вЂњOf all the subjects IвЂ™ve been learning about lately, one stands out for its mind-boggling complexity: understanding how the cells and connections in our brains give rise to consciousness and our ability to learn,вЂќ Gates writes.

A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, by Jeff Hawkins The Gates Foundation has funded several projects that use CRISPR, from plants edited to survive climate change to antibodies that could kill the pathogens that cause malaria or AIDS, so Gates is very familiar with the technology, but says that he still learned from the book. Walter IsaacsonвЂ™s book tells the story of that scientific discovery, and explains both the promise and the ethical challenges, including the fact that a Chinese scientist used the technology to edit the genomes of two human embryos-against accepted scientific practice-and those children, now toddlers, will later be able to pass on those altered genes. In 2012, the biochemist Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues discovered the CRISPR tool, a form of вЂњgenetic scissorsвЂќ that transformed the science of gene editing.

#Hawkins map of consciousness image code#

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race, by Walter Isaacson