[extropy-chat] Almost, but not completely, unlike A.I. or "scramble the rat fighters!"

[Adrian Tymes]

Flying isn't the hard part of flying.  Navigation, taking off,
landing safely, and executing combat actions while under fire
(specifically, hitting your target and not getting hit), are more
complex, in increasing order of difficulty.

That said, if this is legitimate, it is a good existence proof
that artificial neural networks really do act like real neurons,
and thus that the theory and software developed for the former
can be ported to the latter.

--- The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Teaser:
> 
> 'A brain nurtured in a Petri dish learns to pilot a
> fighter plane as scientists develop a new breed of
> "living" computer.'
> 
> Read on . . .
> 
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/12/06/1102182227308.html
> 
> If this is legitimate,and it is pursued, it
> singlehandedly pushes my estimated time of arrival of
> the singularity up by several decades to a mere 15
> years away. If 25,000 rat neurons interfaced to a PC
> can fly an F-22 in a hurricane, imagine what 10^12
> neurons (rat, goat, human... I don't think it matters
> although I would go with human because then we could
> appeal to its nepotism) interfaced to a Cray or a
> Blue-gene could do? Even a mystic neovitalist such as
> myself sees the post-human writing on the wall with
> tech like this being developed. No need to reverse
> engineer the animus for your mind children when you
> can just comandeer it from already living cells.
> Brilliant and scary.
> 
> 
> The Avantguardian 
> is 
> Stuart LaForge
> alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu
> 
> "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is
> the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a
> stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good
> as dead: his eyes are closed. . ."
> 
> - Albert Einstein, "What I Believe" (1930)
> 
> 
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