The top prize at the fair went to 19-year-old Ionut Budisteanu of Romania, who used "artificial intelligence to create a viable model for a low-cost, self-driving car, " according to an Intel statement.

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Nowhere does it discuss how you get from artificial general intelligence to the ability to model complex systems.

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For decades researchers have tried replicating the top-down, hierarchical model of the human brain to create artificial intelligence in computers, without success.

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