RE: AI

Why am I haveing visions of a live insect brain in a weapons guidence
system.
A wetware brain interfaced to a weapon may in the future be as cost and
weight effective.

Andy

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From: owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Beth Fulton
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 6:16 PM
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: AI

G'day guys,

>Speaking as probably the only person on this list who's actually
>designed and built a military-grade AI (for naval anti-missle defence),
>I'm not so sure.
>You don't have to have something much smarter than an ant, or at best a
>frog, to be really useful.

Though not military AI I know of a lot of work on AIs (for robot
navigation) which are currently underway and based on ants/bees/various
other insects/owls/toads and a hedgehog (that one's got me stumped too).

Cheers

Beth

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