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LOGIC IS INSUFFICIENT. "1960s and 1970s. Back then, many thought that general-purpose AI could be achieved purely through symbolic manipulation. That is, it was thought that we could build machines that, through purely logical reasoning, would derive a sufficient understanding of the world to reach and even exceed human intelligence." https://pointersgonewild.com/ View in LinkedIn

A SECURITY EXPLOIT. "Parasitic computing is programming technique where a program in normal authorized interactions with another program manages to get the other program to perform computations of a complex nature. It is, in a sense, a security exploit in that the program implementing the parasitic computing has no authority to consume resources made available to the other program." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_computing View in LinkedIn

MASSIVE QUESTION. "Computer programming is all about putting human-derived algorithms or instructions into a binary code to make machines do what we want. Right? What if this purely logic and purely human system has parts that we do not understand? What would that mean if it was not just programmer error (which happens massively)?" https://lnkd.in/de4Pasi View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this two weekend venture into the theme of coevolution. Clearly, this story is far from over, and there is more to learn. It is interesting to imagine that man and machine may one day coevolve when Artificial Intelligence gains its inevitable autonomy, and when flesh and machine inevitably become more entwined. So far, the story of coevolution in biology has been limited to closely interacting species, such as the microbiome and the host, but this will expand one day to extraordinary realms. View in LinkedIn

MORE SERIOUS BUG STORIES. “The 1996 maiden flight of the European Space Agency's state-of-the-art Ariane 5 rocket ended in a spectacular explosion over French Guiana. The rocket's inertial guidance system failed to convert a piece of data from a 64-bit format to a 16-bit format. Estimates on the cost of the lost rocket and cargo run to $500 million.” https://lnkd.in/d3YygPs View in LinkedIn

NEXT LEVEL UP. "The social structure of the hive is transmitted epigenetically across generations, and the honeybee genome is an adaptation to the social structure laid down in the distant past." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/366/1566/878 View in LinkedIn

COMPUTER ERRORS can be serious. “Knight Capital Group, a market-making firm that until August 2012 had a stellar reputation in its industry, blew all of that in about 30 minutes. Between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. EST on August 1, the company’s trading algorithms got a little buggy and decided to buy high and sell low on 150 different stocks. By the time the bleeding had stopped, KCG had lost $440 million on trades.” https://lnkd.in/dAbKmAG View in LinkedIn

HONEYBEE. "An excellent example of gene–environment coevolution is the honeybee, in which the origin of its eusociality probably lay in the high degree of relatedness fostered by haplodiploidy, but which persists in modern species despite the fact that relatedness in the hive is generally quite low, due to multiple queen matings, multiple queens, queen deaths and the like." http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/366/1566/878 View in LinkedIn

SIGNAL NOISE. "Many communication channels are subject to channel noise, and thus errors may be introduced during transmission from the source to a receiver. Error detection techniques allow detecting such errors, while error correction enables reconstruction of the original data in many cases." https://lnkd.in/dA7ruzn View in LinkedIn

ERROR CORRECTION. "Within the equations of supersymmetry he has found, quite unexpectedly, what are called “doubly-even self-dual linear binary error-correcting block codes.” That’s a long-winded label for codes that are commonly used to remove errors in computer transmissions, for example to correct errors in a sequence of bits representing text that has been sent across a wire." https://lnkd.in/d9hDGKw View in LinkedIn