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		rndn on Aug 22, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Can AI Get from Neuroscience? (2007) [pdf] We want to build AI. We can't build bird. We can build plane.

modeless on Aug 22, 2015 [–]

More to the point, building planes was a better way to discover and deeply understand the principles of aerodynamics than studying birds. Similarly, building working AIs will be a better way to discover and deeply understand the principles of intelligence and consciousness than studying brains.

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