Year: 2022

COMPUTATIONAL VIRAL ECOSYSTEMS. "A number of processes in parallel execute instructions held in a shared block of memory. Processes may spawn other processes, overwrite instructions and in effect compete for memory and execution time resources." https://lnkd.in/etkXtU6 View in LinkedIn

"THE ELECTRONIC ECOLOGIES that eventuate were astounding. The instrumentation sequences that serve as "organismal" analogues spontaneously developed sophisticated behaviours. Among these were complex patterns of memory, flocking, parasitism and immunity, predator-prey relationships, and sexual reproduction." (Page 51). https://lnkd.in/etkXtU6 View in LinkedIn

AVOIDING IMMUNE SURVEILLANCE. "Already computer viruses exist that are capable of mutating their byte-level appearance, so as to foil virus detection software schemes that search for sequences of bytes uniquely associated with known viruses. It is not hard...to further imagine advanced anti-virus software that itself evolves counter-adaptations to the latest viral tricks" just like in nature.” https://lnkd.in/dgC8qNr 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." https://lnkd.in/dcUxjca View in LinkedIn

EVOLVABLE HARDWARE. "Currently, there are serious research efforts to build robots with evolvable hardware." https://lnkd.in/da2m8CW View in LinkedIn

ADAPTABLE MACHINES. "Great interest has been shown in the application of the principles of artificial life to physically embedded systems such as mobile robots, computer networks, home devices able continuously and autonomously to adapt their behavior to changes of the environments." https://lnkd.in/datvJuv View in LinkedIn

EVOLVING BUCKETS OF BOLTS. "At the same time researchers have been working on the development of evolvable hardware, and new integrated circuits that are able to adapt their hardware autonomously and in real time in a changing environment." https://lnkd.in/datvJuv View in LinkedIn

PAIRED MATINGS. "A computer carefully scrutinized every member of large and diverse set of candidates. Each was evaluated dispassionately, and assigned a numeric score according to a strict set of criteria. This machine’s task was to single out the best possible pairings from the group, then force the selected couples to mate so that it might extract the resulting offspring and repeat the process with the following generation." https://lnkd.in/e5p4fXs View in LinkedIn

INCREASING FITNESS. "As predicted, with each breeding cycle the offspring evolved slightly, nudging the population incrementally closer to the computer’s pre-programmed definition of the perfect individual" as a result of computer-directed paired matings. https://lnkd.in/e5p4fXs View in LinkedIn

EVOLVABLE HARDWARE. "We propose a number of possible directions for evolvable robot hardware, notably including the need for self-healing within complex evolved robots. We conclude the chapter by identifying three major challenges in evolvable robot hardware: when and how often to physically instantiate and fitness test, brain-body coevolution and genotype-phenotype mapping." https://lnkd.in/eMKS2fB View in LinkedIn