In his book, "On Intelligence" Hawkins describes the mammalian brain as a auto-associative memory rather than a computer. I am sure they are exploring the possibilities of this new understanding at
Numenta. One of the logical consequences of this line of thinking is that all of the knotty pattern-recognition type problems become much easier to solve.
Could we have our voice-enabled pocket device now please? Is it too much to ask?
Tomorrow we will see Hawkins' new baby.