International Journal of Nursing & Care

Synthetic Brain

Abstract

Andrew Hague

Is the excitement about computerised thinking that is called artificial intelligence (AI) using synthetic brains more about the value of companies developing AI than the invention of a tool to help humanity? This article doubts that a computer programme that only uses what already exists can move forward to an invention. It requires imagination and disobedience to break into new territory and only a real, not synthetic, brain can do that.

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