23rd January 2006, 4:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 23rd January 2006, 6:44 PM by Dark Jaguar.)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7470
This is several months old, but it's the first I've heard of it. Seems a group, after painstakingly gathering data via experimentation, is now prepairing to create an artificial brain modelled via computer.
Now, the details on how feasible this even IS with current computer technology aside, there's a nagging moral question.
Would it be right to turn this thing off?
This is several months old, but it's the first I've heard of it. Seems a group, after painstakingly gathering data via experimentation, is now prepairing to create an artificial brain modelled via computer.
Now, the details on how feasible this even IS with current computer technology aside, there's a nagging moral question.
Would it be right to turn this thing off?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)