Month: September 2022

MODEL #3 CO-OPTION. "Genes co-opted for new functions can give rise to developmental and physiological novelties." https://lnkd.in/dJG4bYH View in LinkedIn

MODEL #3 CO-OPTION. "Many complex biological systems are characterized by a tight integration of component parts. New associations of existing substructures or proteins may give rise to new functions, thus it is not necessary for the system to evolve in toto." https://lnkd.in/dJG4bYH View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this first of two weekends looking at the evolution of complexity in a granular way; the molecular manifestations and mechanisms that give rise to complexity follow familiar themes, in particular the repurposing of old parts, and the need for cooperation between parts to create novelty, in often ingenious combinations. Biochemistry is full of such ingenuity, which then becomes manifest phenotypically. View in LinkedIn

OLD THORN. "The fundamental question about any creative machine is whether its abilities derive only from its maker, or whether it is capable of independent and surprising originality. This key question dates back to the earliest efforts in robotics." https://lnkd.in/d4iuTqi View in LinkedIn

DEEP BLUE "beat world chess champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov in Philadelphia in 1997. It was the first match Kasparov lost, ever. He apparently got spooked by the machine; according to press accounts, Kasparov said there were moments when the machine seemed to evince an unexpected creativity." https://lnkd.in/d4iuTqi View in LinkedIn

EMERGENT POSSIBILITY. "Some AI researchers believe that true machine intelligence is possible – even inevitable. The argument goes like this: Computers will inexorably surpass human brains in complexity and processing power, machine consciousness will emerge, and the world will be transformed in wholly unpredictable ways." https://lnkd.in/d4iuTqi View in LinkedIn

POST-TURING. "Currently scientists use the Turing test - named after computer scientist Alan Turing - which evaluates whether an AI can convince a judge that it is human in a conversation. Prof Mark Riedl, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, is proposing a new test. It would ask a machine to create a convincing poem, story or painting." https://lnkd.in/dgi356m View in LinkedIn

BOT CREATIVITY EMERGING. "There are already robots that manifest rudimentary emotional intelligence and computers can already write inspiring music." http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30144069 View in LinkedIn

ARTIFICIAL CREATIVITY examined in this short video. https://lnkd.in/d-npc7u View in LinkedIn

AUTONOMOUS CREATIVITY. "No pictures are programmed in advance; AARON isn’t just a modern-day version of an eighteenth-century drawing automaton, repeatedly churning out the same picture. Instead, AARON makes an endless supply of wholly original artwork. AARON now produces its original paintings without Cohen’s intervention." https://lnkd.in/d4iuTqi View in LinkedIn