back to article GNU want (another) free AI package release? Yes. But we should train this puppy

The GNU free software project has launched version 0.0.1 of its Gneural Network package in response to the “outstanding and truly inspiring” results achieved of late in proprietary artificial intelligence. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) describes Gneural Network as a GNU package for a programmable neural network, which as …

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  2. Charles Manning

    The fact that only companies and labs have access ... DANGER DANGER

    Fact??? Fact??? Bollocks!

    This is just "there's a corporate crook under every bed" FUD.

    NNs have been around since granny was a girl (well at least since I did post grad stuff using NNs in the 1980s).

    They're simple as anything to program. Any vaguely competent programmer can write a NN engine.

    This is certainly not a technology where the common man is locked out.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I don't get it

    Could someone explain in layman’s terms what one might be able to do with the current version of Gneural Network? 'Curve fitting' doesn’t mean very much to me..

    Or indeed neural networking... Perhaps I should hit a search engine.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: I don't get it

      "Or indeed neural networking"

      These are very helpful in programming the robots that will eventually destroy humanity.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: I don't get it

        Destroy or liberate?

        All a matter of perspective.

        1. MonkeyCee

          Re: I don't get it

          Liberate from us from our fleshy prisons!

          1. Snowy Silver badge
            Coat

            Re: I don't get it

            @Monkeycee

            My coat it's the one with the long multi coloured scarf overflowing from the pocket.

  4. mIRCat
    Coat

    Robot overlords needed.

    Let me be the first to wel... Oh, they're already here? Let me fetch my coat then.

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