From: foo@foo.com   
      
   with all this talk of AIs and robots over the last week or so, i was   
   wondering wether anyone had been following artificial development and   
   their ccortex project:   
      
   'Artificial Development is building the largest neural network to date   
   to model a state-of-the-art emulation of the human brain. With 20   
   billion neurons and 20 trillion connections, CCortex is up to 10.000   
   times larger than any previous attempt to replicate, partially or   
   completely, primary characteristics of Human Intelligence, and is the   
   first neural system to achieve a level of complexity rivaling that of   
   the mammalian brain.'   
      
   http://www.ad.com/tech.html   
      
   what are people's opinions on the way forward for ai research? should we   
   be trying to emulate the brain by building giant neural networks that   
   mimic the actual structure of the brain? building 'child' programs that   
   learn and evolve? or completely programming an ai from scratch?   
      
   any thoughts?   
      
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