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FRAGMENT FROM NATURE illustrates how molecular promiscuity in disordered regions of proteins yield unexpected plasticity and desirable traits, but also a susceptibility for diseases. We usually think of the genome as highly ordered, but protein products of genes can show considerable disorder, or viewed alternatively, structural flexibility that is less geometrically or electronically constrained. These present opportunities as well as potential problems. View in LinkedIn

GENETIC PROGRAMMING. "The researchers thought this would provide insight on more efficient circuit design, but the circuit that evolved was so bizarre they couldn't even understand how it was doing the task. Recreating the circuit on another identical system makes it fail, so apparently it relies on quirks and imperfections in the transistors to function. No human would ever design a circuit this way." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

MACHINE CREATIVITY. "For example I saw a super mario world computer speed run where the program found that spin jumping resulted in safer runs. I beat that game several times and never tried it. The possibility had never occurred to me and in irony of all ironies a computer managed to be more creative. Execution is one thing. But creativity we consider to be in the human domain. Maybe not much longer." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

SICK, WICKED AND DARK. "And the end result of TechnoCore's self-evolution without empathy and altruism was beats so sick, wub-wubs so wicked, and bass drops so dank that no human could handle how dope they were." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

TECHNOCORE. "These precursor entities grew in complexity by hijacking and "parasitizing" one another's code, becoming more powerful at the expense of others. As a result, as they grew into self-awareness, they never developed the concepts of empathy and altruism - a fundamental deficit that would result in conflict with other ascended entities in the future." https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3d3vct View in LinkedIn

FUNCTIONALITY OF PROMISCUOUS BINDING. "These regions allow for functionality such as engaging in the formation of dynamic heteromeric structures which can serve to increase local activity of an enzyme or store a collection of functionally related molecules for later use." http://www.biochemj.org/content/454/3/361?sa=X&ved=0CDkQ9QEwEWoVChMIzdjAo5n2xgIVovRyCh0HSAum View in LinkedIn

BETTER THAN HUMAN. "Recently, some impressive feats have been achieved with deep neural networks, including object classification that exceeds human performance, and of course the much-discussed victory of the computer program AlphaGo over human Go champion Lee Sedol. Some amazing projects such as the neural artistic style transfer and and deep networks that learn to synthesize new images have also surfaced." https://pointersgonewild.com/ View in LinkedIn

QUEST FOR AI. "These successes lead to great optimism, and the belief that computers would be able to effectively handle human language, machine translation and vehicle driving before 1980. It was found, as philosophers had predicted, that you could hardly build a machine capable of reasoning about the real world through purely symbolic means. The problem was one of grounding. Symbols in a vacuum don’t mean anything." https://pointersgonewild.com/ View in LinkedIn

SCHOOLED FRAUD. "Professor Roland Arkin from the School of interactive computing at the University of Georgia presented the results of an experiment in which scientists were able to teach a group of robots to cheat and deceive. The strategy for such fraudulent behavior was based on the behavior of birds and squirrels." https://lnkd.in/d9TbGeJ View in LinkedIn