[extropy-chat] A Fully Autonomous Robot Builds Its Own Brain and Learns from Scratch

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>From eMediaWire: For the first time in history, a
robot has built its own synthetic central nervous
system and then learned not only to walk, but how to
autonomously enter and navigate the corridors of
complex buildings. This dramatic experiment was
recently conducted at Imagination Engines, Inc. (IEI)
in St. Louis, Missouri. Neural networks spontaneously
connect themselves in a matter of seconds into the
neural circuitry required for extremely ambitious
robotic brains. The resulting neural network
architecture both resembles and functions like a
brain, a collection of individual neural networks
fused into a contemplative system that can form
complete models of their worlds, consider alternative
scenarios, and finally choose that alternative best
suited to a given problem.
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