Re: Steve Grand's Project

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 18:18:37 MST

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    On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 07:07:02PM -0500, Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
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    > http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/pc/realitycarnival.html
    >
    > Steve Grand -- Britain???s smartest man -- is developing Lucy, an intelligent
    > living machine that he hopes will grow like a human baby. His ambition -- to
    > create a robot child that develops a real mind of its own -- could do just
    > that. (Read more...)

    Nice to see that he has continued his alife work. I was very impressed
    with the neural network of Creatures, and I hope he manages to work his
    magic here too. Unfortunately I think the project is approaching the
    "and then a miracle occurs" problem - if you don't *start* from some
    cortical or brain theory, filling in the central blank is pretty hard. 

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