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INNOVATION. "As spotted by Hack a Day, a chap named Kory Becker recently made use of a minimalistic yet Turing-complete language called brainfu*k to create a program that can generate 'hello world' programs. Sure, it's considerably less impressive than, say, making Skynet, but it's still a step in what may or may not be the correct direction." https://lnkd.in/d5enhBP View in LinkedIn

GENE RECRUITMENT. "Another recurring theme that appears common is the recruitment of (or the seeding by) genes originally involved in primary metabolism for the natural product biosynthesis gene clusters." https://lnkd.in/dEpJBda View in LinkedIn

GAPING HOLES. "Memory corruption vulnerabilities have become significantly more difficult on modern operating systems. There are still gaping holes in stack input/output that can be exploited." https://lnkd.in/dzU4CYK View in LinkedIn

WEAK POINT. "Buffer overflows can be triggered by inputs that are designed to execute code, or alter the way the program operates. This may result in erratic program behavior, including memory access errors, incorrect results, a crash, or a breach of system security. Thus, they are the basis of many software vulnerabilities and can be maliciously exploited." https://lnkd.in/dvGXWzj View in LinkedIn

BUFFER OVERFLOW. "In computer security and programming, a buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomaly where a program, while writing data to a buffer, overruns the buffer's boundary and overwrites adjacent memory locations. This is a special case of the violation of memory safety." https://lnkd.in/dvGXWzj View in LinkedIn

SPEED. "When we wanted the speed increase from code compression, we gave the AI some additional legos (programming instructions). Likewise, if we want the AI to write programs than can access the computer’s file system or communicate over the Internet, we’re going to need new instructions." https://lnkd.in/d4FtxBC View in LinkedIn

ADVANCED TOOLKIT. "The programming instruction set supplied to the AI is like a toy-bin consisting of 8 legos. You can build all kinds of houses, castles, dungeons, and roads with just those 8 legos. However, eventually, you’re going to want to do more." https://lnkd.in/d4FtxBC View in LinkedIn

HUGE STEP FORWARD. "The AI successfully wrote the program in 446,200 generations in about 2 hours. This is a really interesting result. It’s also the longest program yet written by the AI, containing 650 instructions (although not all instructions are needed). All of this is encoded within the above automatically generated source code. This is truly a huge step forward from the AI’s humble beginnings." https://lnkd.in/d4FtxBC View in LinkedIn

COMPLEXITY AND FITNESS CRITERIA. "As the complexity for the target programs grows, unfortunately, so too does the fitness function. After all, the fitness function needs to guide the AI in determining how well a particular child program suits the targeted solution." (AI = artificial intelligence). https://lnkd.in/d4FtxBC View in LinkedIn

NOVEL SOFTWARE. "By manipulating and arranging bits, we can theoretically create any type of software - even ones that do not yet exist. And unlike the process of arranging atoms to create, for example gold, this process wouldn’t even require nuclear reactions." https://lnkd.in/d4FtxBC View in LinkedIn