creating neural network AIs - to let them go insane

[auroraglacialis]

Scientists have dreamt about creating artificial intelligence with neuranal networks for a long time. For creating intelligent robots and all that.

But what is among the first things they do once they get things going a bit (creating neuronal networks that can deal with language)? They deliberately let it go insane:
Scientists afflict computers with schizophrenia to better understand the human brain | Science Blog

The neural network used by Grasemann and his adviser, Professor Risto Miikkulainen, is called DISCERN. Designed by Miikkulainen, DISCERN is able to learn natural language. In this study it was used to simulate what happens to language as the result of eight different types of neurological dysfunction.

kinda makes me think of "Hal 9000" or "Skynet". Especially as they specifically found that with only a little change, the system went schizophreniac, a mental condition that is related to paranoia...