The event, titled the 2003 National Academic Conference of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), is also meant to mark the 20th anniversary of the creation of extenics, a cross-section discipline created by a Chinese professor 20 years ago. ... [Zhong Yixin, president of the CAAI] said that it has long been a dream of the Chinese people to create various machines able to perform almost all functions of humans, and this kind of imagination can be found in both ancient and modern Chinese literature, especially novels. ... Founded in 1981 with the aim of exploring the secrets of human wisdom and transplanting them to machines, the CAAI has grown from less than 100 members to more than 2,500 members.
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