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AI Could Get Smarter By Copying the Neural Structure of a Rat Brain (ieee.org)
the_newsbeagle writes: Many of today's fanciest artificial intelligence systems are some type of artificial neural network, but they bear only the roughest resemblance to a biological brain's real networks of neurons. That could change thanks to a $100M program from IARPA. The intelligence agency is funding neuroscience teams to map 1 cubic millimeter of rodent brain, looking at activity in the visual cortex while the rodent is engaged in a complex visual recognition task. By discovering how the neural circuits in that brain cube get activated to process information, IARPA hopes to find inspiration for better artificial neural networks. And an AI that performs better on visual recognition tasks could certainly be useful to intelligence agencies.
Just because a politician doesn't espouse policies you support doesn't make him stupid, nor you smart.
If anything, it shows you're close-minded and not as smart as you believe you are - you can't even conceive the notion that you just might be wrong.
Fact isn't a policy you neanderthal. You are confusing reality with active choices, such as religion or snorting cocaine. Like with evolution (also a fact), the details of how we affect our climate are well understood, and those details are described in abundance, readily available for anyone that wishes to understand them. The comprehensive model for our climate is still very turbulent, as with most complex systems we try to understand.
Choosing a policy is what happens later, when you have the facts. The process of going from fetus to adult human being is a fact, the policy of when a fetus is considered a human is not a fact. Evolution is a fact. Choosing to replace biology with creationism is a policy.
Not "believing" the facts is what makes Trump a moron, not his policy, though obviously the latter would change were he to stop believing the former a "hoax by the Chinese". Hence he, like you, could benefit from an 80 point IQ bump, since most people of average intelligence and all above that can read well enough to understand how our actions affect our environment.
In short, you are so far below the standard human in terms of intelligence that you think fact is a policy, that your opinions are somehow equivalent to science (muh feels), and that your betters are somehow close-minded for trying to educate you.