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AI vs Computational Neuroscience

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0 of 1 people found this post helpful Posted 08/15/08 - 08:19 AM: Subject: College courses	#1
Hi, I've been pondering about this for a while and have been researching about them. They seem so similar in that they both deal with pattern recognition and software. What's the difference? Is there a subtle difference? Thanks.

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Posted 08/15/08 - 08:28 PM:	#2
I think "AI" would be a broader category which would include computational neuroscience. I only had the first course when I was in college, however, and know there are a many more subjects not covered by the latter term. Computational neuroscience sounds like it would only cover ANN, (artificial neural networks). It is a bigger field than when I was in college, so I can understand making a course out of it. Even in my day, AI was such a comprehensive subject that it seemed we learned a little about a large number of things. When I tried to go back and actually work on those subjects, I was disappointed to find that they were just different ways of looking at general computational subjects, (an "expert system", for example, is just a kind of dynamic decision tree -- if/then conditions stored in a database). (By the way, my old AI instructor made the news a few weeks ago for teaching students to write and implement viruses).
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