Eugene Leitl wrote:
> 
> The tasks of creating an AI and
> neuronal emulation are only distantly related.  Neuronal emulation is
> distinctly harder.
Hear, hear!  In fact, I would divide this into three different tasks:
1)  Getting useful AI out of a neural net;
2)  A neuronal emulation good enough that it's helpful to use synaptic
patterns and neuroanatomical architectures and training methods derived
from study of the human brain;
3)  Emulating an actual human, or useful parts thereof, that you somehow scanned.
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