# The AI community is starting to come around

**URL:** <https://discourse.numenta.org/t/the-ai-community-is-starting-to-come-around/1948>\
**Category:** Numenta Theory\
**Tags:** community, talk\
**Created:** [February 24, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/the-ai-community-is-starting-to-come-around/1948 "2017-02-24T20:05:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/the-ai-community-is-starting-to-come-around/1948/1 "2017-02-24T20:05:35Z")

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I see indications of good things for HTM in the future. For one thing, I have noticed a lot more people on our forums with technical backgrounds in ANN-based machine learning. For the longest time, most conventional ML folks paid no attention to HTM. So thank you all for giving us a chance.

I am also seeing more people saying that current ANN technology will not bring about major advances that lead to “Strong AI”. For example, here is a talk at the upcoming [AI With the Best](http://ai.withthebest.com/#Talks) conference by [Danko Nikolic](http://www.danko-nikolic.com/) (Max Planck Institute) entitled _ **Why deep neural nets cannot ever match biological intelligence and what to do about it?** _.

So two people are talking about biological intelligence where both Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio are keynoting! That is a **good sign**!

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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 5:24am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/the-ai-community-is-starting-to-come-around/1948/2 "2017-09-17T05:24:28Z")

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> **[Artificial intelligence pioneer says we need to start over](https://www.axios.com/ai-pioneer-advocates-starting-over-2485537027.html)**
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> Geoffrey Hinton expresses doubts about neural training method

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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2017, 3:02pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/the-ai-community-is-starting-to-come-around/1948/3 "2017-09-17T15:02:32Z")

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> <https://twitter.com/lxbrun/status/908712249379966977>

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**Author:** ![vpuente](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/vpuente/32/4115_2.png) [@vpuente](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/vpuente)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/the-ai-community-is-starting-to-come-around/1948/4 "2017-09-18T10:11:36Z")

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Some aditional views from [Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15256476).

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**Author:** ![blue2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/blue2/32/5050_2.png) [@blue2](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/blue2)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/the-ai-community-is-starting-to-come-around/1948/5 "2017-11-02T13:04:48Z")

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How’d Danko’s talk go?

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**Author:** ![rhyolight](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/rhyolight/32/3922_2.png) [@rhyolight](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/rhyolight)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/the-ai-community-is-starting-to-come-around/1948/6 "2017-11-02T17:16:34Z")

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I did not attend it.

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**Author:** ![abshej](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.numenta.org/abshej/32/1993_2.png) [@abshej](https://discourse.numenta.org/u/abshej)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 5:42am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/the-ai-community-is-starting-to-come-around/1948/7 "2018-02-21T05:42:53Z")

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Sooo exciting! 🤤