Reading Slashdot, some days ago, found an article about a simulation of the human brain called Blue Brain.

The interesting thing is, could we someday completly emulate the human intelligence?

What about feelings? sensations?

Is there a good software to generate and use Artificial Neural Networks? I know some of them but are dificult to use, like SNNS from Stutgart.

what can I say? wouldn't it be great to download your brain into a computer and live forever?

I think on another usage.
Train a brain to upload to a person. Freaky, isn't it?

People keep messing with mother nature and mother natures is going to butt them in the behind. Not saying Im not a fan of technology(obviously I am) but I rather people spend time fixing problems we already have or the ones we created.

Artificial intelligence has always fascinated me. At first I read a lot of Asimov books but then I moved on to read up on Vernor Vinge. Vinge and some other scientists have theorized about a technological singularity. A very real point in the near future where computers will not only be as smart as humans, but smarter. The reason this is referred to as a technological singularity is that as soon as computers become smarter than humans, then computers begin building smarter computers, which in turn build smarter computers and everything gets out of control.

I for one welcome our computer masters and promise to be a good slave J

Reading you post reminded me to Terminator plot. ;-)

There was a great television series made by the BBC called Cold Lazarus (directed and written (I think both) by Dennis Potter (who also made The Singing Detective)).

Basically it's sometime in the future and a company has managed to keep the head or a person alive and are using his brain and watching all his memories. It's quite scary in the way that you really don't want anything like that happening to you.

Artificial Intelligence is what computer scientist all over the world are working upon right now. Especially organizations like NASA and all other related to robotics engineering are working a great deal on it.
But do you think will it help mankind if a real human like robot is built with complete AI like a real human. Or will it create a disater like shown in hollywood flick IROBOT

The computers that we are using today are actually under the Artificial Inteligence. We can communicate with them though binary system (if I am not wrong, I don't know much about computer programmin) those zeros and ones. But the definition of AI is more complex now. it has something to do with Robots that think by themselves without human interference.

AI would be very helpful to us, unless some weirdo would create something from it to conquer or destroy the world. I hope the terrorist can't acquire somthing big that could do an artificial intelegence to destroy us all.