Month: September 2022

PRIMORDIAL DIGITAL SOUP. “What would happen, McCaskill had wondered, if one made a soup of Turing machines and let them collide; one collision partner would act as the machine, and the other partner in the collision would act as the input tape. The soup of programs would act on itself, rewriting each other's programs until... Until what? Well, it didn't work. Many Turing machine programs are able to enter infinite loop and "hang." http://www.panspermia.org/computrs.htm View in LinkedIn

DEBATE. “The Strange, Disembodied Life of Digital Organisms.The article dealt with the effort to model living, evolving organisms as little bits of supposedly living, evolving computer code, and was in part a critique of an article that appeared in the leading scientific journal, Nature, in May 2003." Read the ensuing firestorm of criticism. https://lnkd.in/diF4rQP View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL COMPUTATION. "The borderline between using biological ideas to solve computational problems (bio-inspired computing) and attempting to build systems that behave like biological organisms (artificial life) is fine and often hard to define." https://lnkd.in/dWc3sBk View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC EVOLUTION. “We propose an experimental study where simplistic organisms rise from inanimate matter and evolve solely through physical interactions. These organisms are composed of three types of macroscopic building blocks floating in an agitated medium. Our results suggest that an autonomous evolution of non-biological organisms can be realized in human-designed environments and, potentially, in natural environments as well.” https://lnkd.in/dWJXxpX View in LinkedIn

AMBITIOUS GOAL. “Evolutionary robotics is on the rise. Instead of robots being designed by human beings, machines run iterative processes to produce new code for the robot’s controller. A team of international scientists from Germany, The Netherlands, France and the UK are proposing a new framework called The Triangle of Life. Their aim is to bring the development of robots to a point where it truly mimics biological evolution.” https://lnkd.in/dyHuU2m View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMY. "We re-think the notion of autonomy of evolving systems, and show that evolutionary systems are characterized by a particular type of syntactic autonomy." An energetic and terse voyage into terra infirma. http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/rocha/publications/sa.html View in LinkedIn

“GOOGLE DEEPMIND is a British artificial intelligence company founded in 2010 as DeepMind Technologies. It was renamed when it was acquired by Google in 2014. The company has created a neural network that learns how to play video games in a similar fashion to humans, as well as a neural network that may be able to access an external memory like a conventional Turing machine, resulting in a computer that appears to possibly mimic the short-term memory of the human brain.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind View in LinkedIn

SELF-PROGRAMMING. “The Neural Turing Machine will combine the best of number-crunching with the human-like adaptability of neural networks – so it can invent its own programs.” https://lnkd.in/dxPNmRP View in LinkedIn

FAST-FORWARD. “Google claims its quantum computer can do the impossible in 200 seconds.” https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/23/tech/google-quantum-supremacy-scn/index.html View in LinkedIn

DEEPMIND. “Founded by Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman in London, 2010. DeepMind was supported by some of the most iconic tech entrepreneurs and investors of the past decade, prior to being acquired by Google in early 2014 in their largest European acquisition to date.” https://deepmind.com/ View in LinkedIn