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From: jerry@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Jerry Lugert)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Neural Nets???  BUMBLE-BEE!
Summary: I don't think so.
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Date: 27 Sep 88 08:03:16 GMT
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In article <551@epicb.UUCP> david@epicb.UUCP (David P. Cook) writes:
>I am alittle taken-back by this group (comp.ai.neural-nets)... So far, I
>
> Come on!  Lots of us want to keep abreast of the latest in neural 
> progress!
>
> So... to get the ball rolling... can anyone give me more scoop on the
> BUMBLEBEE system... supposedly it contained roughly the same number of
> neurons as a bumble-bee.  I'd love to see it, it bet it flys! (no pun

I heard this bumble-bee was just a rumor, a joke.

There is a very significant difference between designing a neural network
with the same number of neurons as a bee and making an actual model of a
bee's brain using a connectionist system. 

Jerry