Re: MORE SCIENCE AND SF

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 08:56:12 -0500 Andy Cowell <andy@cowell.org> writes:
>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
>him HAL.".

I wonder if AFP is "April Fool's Press"?

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