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"Something amazing will happen and it will resemble the human brain".

I imagine this is ridiculous to anyone working in Machine Learning, Applied Statistics, AI or what it is called at the moment.

Point me to the algorithms that have the potential of resembling the human brain, and I will have a look. Talk a lot about "computers are becoming smarter" and namedrop some brain region names and a lot of technically minded people will zone out.

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There is strong evidence that the neocortex works on a common algorithm; vision, hearing, touch, language, behavior, and most everything else the neocortex does are manifestations of a single algorithm applied to different modalities of sensory input.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory http://onintelligence.org/ http://www.numenta.com/Numenta_HTM_Concepts.pdf

Where does that quote come from? Anyway, note the future tense! You then ask for the algorithms that perform those tasks. Well, I think the point is that none of this exists yet but in the future we have a good chance at building it.

I'm a technically minded person, and I definitely don't zone out when people are talking about the future. Sure, some kook might suggest we already have those algorithms and then I'd zone out. But that's not what's happening.

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