Re: MORE SCIENCE AND SF

In message <p04320405b701571eb184@[63.202.83.130]>, Sean Bayan
Schoonmaker writ
es:
> >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.
> 
> No offense, but I'm not buying this. What's the source?

Yeah, me neither.  I think somebody tacked a 5 at the end of the date.

'"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.'	"And it runs on beets, too!  I'm gonna name