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LUNATICS INVITED. “Biological engineering could become as common as software engineering, bringing millions of new developers into the field. Lunatics must be expected.” http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/06/feature-bio-crime/the-bio-crime-prophecy View in LinkedIn

PROGRAMMING LIFE. “Science has evolved to the point where human beings can write DNA code as well. As a result, thousands of scientists, known as genetic engineers, are programming living things directly.” https://lnkd.in/dkjx-Yi View in LinkedIn

DNA IS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE. “And hackers are going to love DNA. Fundamentally, DNA is just a programming language for living tissues. DNA hackers will write programs for living cells to run, just like computer hackers write programs for computers to run. Today’s most leading-edge scientists have only started doing this, and there is no telling where it will go.” http://blogs.wsj.com/experts/2015/04/28/how-future-hackers-will-target-your-dna/ View in LinkedIn

FRESH PAGE. “Artificial life attempts to understand the essential general properties of living systems by synthesizing life-like behavior in software, hardware and biochemicals.” https://lnkd.in/du7vSNn View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL SELECTION. “One well-known computer program that purports to mimic evolution is the one by Richard Dawkins that creates "biomorphs". The program generates stick figures that resemble insects, trees, bats, spiders, etc. The figures show a certain amount of variety as they evolve. But the evolution is by artificial selection, and nothing like gene duplication occurs. Instead, only nine or sixteen variables (in different versions) are allowed to wander within narrow ranges.” http://www.panspermia.org/computr2.htm 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

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

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

“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