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.