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OPEN SOURCE. "Eureqa is a Machine Intelligence™ application that automates much of the heavy lifting inherent in analytics and data science. Leveraging automated evolutionary algorithms, Eureqa churns through your data to create accurate predictive models in minutes rather than months." (Hod Lipson). https://lnkd.in/dxaxRNu View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC LIFE. "Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA. The researchers constructed a bacterium's "genetic software" and transplanted it into a host cell." https://lnkd.in/dHrNzFp View in LinkedIn

CREATIVE MACHINES LAB. "We explore novel autonomous systems that can design and make other machines – automatically. Our work is inspired from biology, as we seek new biological concepts for engineering and new engineering insights into biology." https://lnkd.in/dWxNW_q View in LinkedIn

VIRTUAL CREATURES. "At the bottom of the hierarchy are electronic polarities, where the material and operational join to create bits, the semiotic markers of one and zero. Logic gates structure signals into bits; compiler languages are built out of bit patterns; programming languages are created from compiler languages." https://lnkd.in/dWchfhd View in LinkedIn

NO SURPRISE. "Evolution dwarfs even the best team of engineers." https://lnkd.in/dtVFGBG View in LinkedIn

VIRTUAL CREATURES. "Even this simple world is complex enough to require three different modes of interrogation: what it is (the material); what it does (the operational); and what it means (the symbolic). Feedback loops connect the material, operational, and symbolic into an integrated, recursively structured hierarchy." https://lnkd.in/dWchfhd View in LinkedIn

HOD LIPSON "has co-authored over 200 papers and speaks frequently at high-profile venues such as TED and the National Academies. Hod directs the Creative Machines Lab, which pioneers new ways to make machines that create, and machines that are creative." https://lnkd.in/drCTazE View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this contemplation of the relationship between pathogens and their hosts, and the balancing act between pathogen virulence and reproductive dispersal versus the evasive measures of the host including increased immunity and suicide, which reduce pathogen dispersal. This dance has gone on in parasite-host relationships in some form forever. At some level, the populations of both host and parasite have a meta-awareness of fecundity and costs, and these are brought to bear on the individual. An intriguing dance that reveals a lot about Nature. View in LinkedIn

PROFESSOR HOD LIPSON and others have taken a unique slant to evolving artificial life: keep the limited human imagination out of the process and let the physical universe effect evolution in very surprising and original ways. It is only a matter of time before computer viruses go mainstream with this approach: no programmer input in these mutations. View in LinkedIn

THE HOPE. 'If we have a system that can organize itself or can evolve in some sense, then the hope is that down the road the system, without any thought or care on our part, will become intelligent.'' https://lnkd.in/d8uZSVQ View in LinkedIn