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From: "Mark Plus" <markplus@hotmail.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>; <transhuman@logrus.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: AI: "Russians create 'artificial human brain' "
> From:
>
> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_250302.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
>
> Russians create 'artificial human brain'
>
> Russian scientists claim to have developed the first artificial brain with
> the same intellectual potential as a human.
>
> The neuro-computer is based on the workings of the human brain cell and
can
> out perform previous brain models.
>
> It uses pioneering findings in neurophysiology and neuromorphology to
> produce a truly thinking machine, scientist Vitaly Valtsev has told the
> Interfax news agency.
>
> He has warned of the potential of the scientific breakthrough, saying the
> new brain could turn into a Frankenstein monster if mistreated.
>
> The scientist said: "This machine needs to be trained like a newborn
child.
> It is extremely important for us to make it a friend, not a criminal or an
> enemy."
>
> Mr Valtsev, a member of the International Academy of Information Science,
> says the Russians have succeeded where others have failed because they
used
> a model of the neurons in the brain in building the computer.
>
> He says earlier attempts to create advanced artificial intelligence have
> failed because scientists tried to create a machine using a model of the
> neuron taken from the spinal cord developed back in the 1940s.
>
> Last updated: 15:42 Sunday 15th April 2001
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