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> Russia hails breakthrough in building artificial brain

No offense, but I'm not buying this. What's the source?

In message <p04320405b701571eb184@[63.202.83.130]>, Sean Bayan Schoonmaker
writ es:
> >Russia hails breakthrough in building artificial brain

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

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

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

Bill Pierce (Ralnai@aol.com) of Starguard fame (player and rules tinkerer and
evil Ralnai leader) passed it on to a bunch of us. No source listed. I am
unsure if this is a joke or a Russian
self-delusion.
Seemed pretty straight forward but you can never tell with those permanent
"Ralnai Lizard Grins" (think crocodile grins) the figures have. And the player
is pretty sneaky too. <grin>

Glenn/Triphibious
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 19:13:59 -0700 Sean Bayan Schoonmaker
> <s_schoon@pacbell.net> writes:

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

That would be my guess...