From Ralnai@aol.com: MORE SCIENCE AND SF-- CAN WARBOTS BE FAR BEHIND???

FWIW I pass this along to you.

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Subject: MORE SCIENC AND SF-- CAN WARBOTS BE FAR BEHIND???
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 22:17:44 EDT
Message-ID: <6c.99b8284.280bb048@aol.com>

Found this while I was web surfing and thought you'd all get a kick.

Bill

Sunday, April 15 6:05 PM SGT 

Russia hails breakthrough in building artificial brain
MOSCOW, April 15 (AFP) - 
Russian scientists claimed Sunday to have developed the first artificial

brain, a "neuro-computer" with the same intellectual potential as its
human 
counterpart, Interfax reported.

The new Russian computer is based on the brain cell, or neuron, and
outstrips 
previous brain models by using state-of-the-art findings in
neurophysiology 
and neuromorphology to produce a truly thinking machine, scientist
Vitaly

Valtsev said.

But he warned of the potential hazards of the scientific breakthrough,
saying 
the brand new brain could turn into a Frankenstein's monster if it was 
mistreated.

"This machine needs to be trained like a newborn child. It's extremely 
important for us to make it a friend, not a criminal or an enemy,"
Valtsev 
said.

Valtsev, a member of the International Academy of Information Science,
told 
Interfax that Russian scientists succeeded where others had failed
because 
they used a model of the neuron of the brain in building the computer.

Earlier attempts to create an artificial intelligence had failed because

scientists had tried to create a smart machine using a model of the
neuron of 
the spinal cord developed back in the 1940s.

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