Monday, December 8, 2008 11:31:10 AM
I'm actually doing a degree in CS with a planned major in theory like this... training neural networks (a network that works like a brain, with nodes that "fire" under certain stimuli) is something I actually did a bit of first year.
We`re already using neural networks to shorten otherwise intractable algorithms that would need to be brute-forced, like path-finding. The notion that a computer could truly "think" is a little ridiculous, in my opinion.