Plans to create ‘human machine’
NZPA-Reiiter Brussels Plans to create a supercomputer with the functions of a human brain to meet a new Japanese challenge in the area of so-called artificial intelligence have been announced by the European Commission.
The commission, the European Community’s executive body, said it had asked six leading Community, scientists to work out a plan by May for teaching a computer to learn, see, recognise objects, and make judgments.
A commission statement said the project, dubbed BRAIN (Basic Research in Adaptive Intelligence and Neurocomputing), was a direct response to a new. $2.4 billion 10-year Japanese project to create a “human machine.”
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