Month: September 2022

MORE ADVANCED. “Polymorphism first appeared in a computer virus called 1260 as a method designed to hide the virus from anti-virus software. The anti-virus software at that time used patterns to identify malicious code inside of executables.” https://lnkd.in/d3T75KG View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION. “Frankenstein may allow computer viruses to mutate, evolve? A new program could bring a day when computer viruses create themselves inside your machine, using little bits of code from your programs.” http://www.zdnet.com/article/frankenstein-may-allow-computer-viruses-to-mutate-evolve/ View in LinkedIn

SELF-ASSEMBLY. “Two researchers at the University of Texas Dallas, Vishwath Mohan and Kevin Hamlen, demonstrated a program earlier this month that could help the makers of malware create viruses that assemble themselves out of all the bits and pieces of code in their victim computers.” http://www.zdnet.com/article/frankenstein-may-allow-computer-viruses-to-mutate-evolve/ View in LinkedIn

OPPORTUNISTIC. “Frankenstein uses these commonalities underlying code to stitch together new programs. It may take a chunk of code from your computer's calculator to add numbers together. Then it may take another chunk that puts a number into memory from your computer's spreadsheet application, such as Microsoft Excel.” http://www.zdnet.com/article/frankenstein-may-allow-computer-viruses-to-mutate-evolve/ View in LinkedIn

COEVOLUTION. “Researchers pitted self-replicating computer programs against computer viruses in the domain of the Avida platform for digital evolution. The co-evolution of host and virus ultimately led to organisms with capabilities superior to those of organisms that evolved without battling the viruses.” http://www.futurity.org/computers-mutations-evolution-826882/ View in LinkedIn

THE SANTA FE INSTITUTE paper of 1990 by J. Doyle Farmer and Alletta d’A. Belin is an extraordinary early paper on artificial life, which has largely become adopted in modern language by the Singularity movement. It will be quoted extensively in the following posts. https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

THE COMING EVOLUTION. "Within fifty to a hundred years a new class of organisms is likely to emerge. These organisms will be artificial in the sense that they will originally be designed by humans. However, they will reproduce, and will evolve into something other than their initial form; they will be "alive" under any reasonable definition of the word.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

NEW LIFE. “These organisms will evolve in a fundamentally different manner than contemporary biological organisms, since their reproduction will be under at least partial conscious control, giving it a Lamarckian component.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION. “The advent of artificial life will be the most significant historical event since the emergence of human beings. The impact on humanity and the biosphere could be enormous, larger than the industrial revolution, nuclear weapons, or environmental pollution.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

NEW LIFE FORMS. “Within the next century we will likely witness the introduction on earth of living organisms originally designed in large part by humans, but with the capability to reproduce and evolve just as- natural organisms do.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn