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Robots Thinking Like Humans

Sandia team develops cognitive machines

From the article:

• The initial goal of the work was to create a “synthetic human” — software program/computer — that could think like a person. “We had the massive computers that could compute the large amounts of data, but software that could realistically model how people think and make decisions was missing,” Forsythe says.
  
• The robotics researchers immediately saw that the model could be used for intelligent machines, and the whole program emphasis changed. Suddenly the team was working on cognitive machines, not just synthetic humans.
  
• “It’s entirely possible that these cognitive machines could be incorporated into most computer systems produced within 10 years,” Forsythe says.

It does not sound like synthetic human intelligence is very far away...