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SPECIALIZED GENES. “In some cases, fluidity in gene function is evident, leading to similar functions in carpel development being controlled by non-orthologous genes in different taxa. In other cases, gene duplication events have created sequences that evolved novel functions by the process of neo-functionalization, thereby generating biodiversity in carpel and fruit structures.” https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/57/10/2143/471376/An-evolutionary-perspective-on-the-regulation-of View in LinkedIn

FIRST NEW GENES. “Gene duplications that took place in the pre-angiosperm lineage, before the evolution of the first flowering plants, provided novel gene clades of potential importance for the origin of the carpel.” https://lnkd.in/dbZEjuz View in LinkedIn

PREBIOSIS. “Take all of these items together—machines that think for themselves, a world where everything is connected, a brain to control it, sensors to monitor it, the ability to build without help of humans and factories to do it in—and one can envision a future where the machines take over. The scary part? All of these technologies exist in some form or another today.” http://readwrite.com/2013/11/07/singularity-ai-human-extinction View in LinkedIn

SPECIATION. “Toward the end of Colossus: The Forbin Project, the computer says, “What I am began in Man's mind, but I have progressed further than Man.” https://lnkd.in/dgtRuSu View in LinkedIn

NEW THINKING. “The DeepMind researchers discovered another bit of weirdness. When they had a neural network train itself to predict the moves of expert players, it did very well, though it took a bit longer to reach the standard of a system trained with human supervision. However, the self-trained network played better overall, suggesting “that AlphaGo Zero may be learning a strategy that is qualitatively different to human play.” https://spectrum-ieee-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/alphago-zero-goes-from-blank-slate-to-grandmaster-in-three-dayswithout-any-help-at-all.amp.html View in LinkedIn

INSCRUTABLE METHOD. “And, the commentators add, the machine’s self-taught methods in the early and later parts of the game confirm the lore that grandmasters have accumulated over centuries of play: “But some of its middle-game judgements are truly mysterious.” https://spectrum-ieee-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/robotics/artificial-intelligence/alphago-zero-goes-from-blank-slate-to-grandmaster-in-three-dayswithout-any-help-at-all.amp.html View in LinkedIn

TASTE OF SUCCESS. “Today DeepMind, a London-based subsidiary of Google, announced that it has developed a machine that plays the ancient Chinese game of Go much better than its predecessor, AlphaGo, which last year beat Lee Sedol, a world-class player, in Seoul.” https://lnkd.in/d4aKq6k View in LinkedIn

BEHIND THE CURVE. “Even the best computer programs out there lack the flexibility of human thinking. A teenager can pick up a new videogame in an hour; your average computer program still can only do just the single task for which it was designed." (Gary Marcus). https://lnkd.in/dxGGPGt View in LinkedIn