Thursday, May 1, 2008

To what extent can we ever expect to be able to create a machine which is `truly' intelligent?

In trying to answer this question we have taken quite a long digression; first to describe what is known about the way the brain is constructed and operates, second to explore one of the most promising new approaches to machine intelligence - computers modeled after the brain or neural networks.
We have debated both the successes and deficiencies of these network models and in the light of what we have discovered we must now return and try to answer the question. We first discuss how we might recognize intelligence in a machine and to what extent neural networks and other approaches to AI can be said to have met this criteria. Finally, we conclude by describing current research directions.

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