How many of you ppl have tried seti at home? Well what it does is takes every users power to search for aliens. For my idea I need someone who knows about neural nets to help me. For those who don't know what a neural net is, its a program that simulates the human brain. The reason we don't have computers that develop there own personality and stuff is because in order to get to any type of intelligant thinking you need at list 1,000,000,000(I think) neurons(virtual) and a computer would have trouble running that in real time. I was thinking that I could set my computer up as a server. It would have a simulated robot. The robot would actually be on the computer in a 3d world. When a computer signed on in the screensaver(it would need to be connected to the net) it would simulate a certian number of neurons. When it signed of it would adjust the weights of the neurons below so no data is lost. Since a neural net needs a goal, the goal would be to make the score 1 above the current value. The score would go down if the robot/virtual robot bumped into something hot, sharp, etc. The score would go up if the robot found food, electricity. Also, the screen saver would show you seeing through the robots eyes. When it wasn't a screen saver, you could sign in as a client. You would basically be a person from the robots perspective. You could scold it for lower score, praise it for higher score, make the world more complex... The robot would have the following scense:
1. Sound
2. Vision
3. Heat
4. Touch
It would have the following output:
1. Sound
2. Motion

Basically with enough users/time it would posibally learn english if users talked to it in chat(simulated sound but typed)/ microphone.

I need help with the following:
1. Neural net(can't figure out how to make one although I have researched)
2. GUI(Can't do that for beans)
3. some type of advertising(more computers, more neurons)
4. I could do the networking part.

Any help I would appriciate.

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