If you are just generally interested in learning about AI, and not specifically Neural Networks. I highly highly recommend reading A Field Guide to Genetic Programming. Genetic Programming is really cool! and this is a wonderfully written book. Fun to read and easy to understand, great for anyone with a beginning or advanced knowledge of computer science. Best of all, it is freely downloadable under Creative Commons. Or you can order a print on demand copy from Amazon or Lulu.

I also highly recommend reading some books that are not directly related to AI. Checkout How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker. He is a phenomenal author.

What was step 3? Did you write it in Chinese?

Can we place level caps on lawyers??

Technically... the super religious zealots cannot claim this to be any more immoral than cloning a sheep or cloning a mammoth. Because according to them... neanderthals are fake, and their bones were placed there by they Jews (at least that is what I heard)...if they do not believe in evolution, then a neanderthal is no more human than a monkey or a sheep is. So at least we have that going for us.