ARTIFICIAL VERSUS NATURAL INTELLIGENCE - WHAT ROLE FOR THE BRAIN

Artificial intelligence has historically been limited to the performan ce of set functions in controlled environments. However, the concept o f artificial intelligence is changing to include aspects of complex in telligence such as unsupervised learning. At last month's ANZAAS Congr ess, Cliff Hooker and Bruce Penfold described how neural networks base d on the structure of the brain can learn to interact dynamically in a changing environment.