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THE GREAT MIXING. “One major role of sex is to bring together alleles carried by different individuals, revealing beneficial genetic variance that is otherwise hidden.” http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001899 View in LinkedIn

STUNNING EXAMPLE. “One of Eureqa’s initial achievements was identifying the basic laws of motion by analyzing the motion of a double pendulum. What took Sir Isaac Newton years to discover, Eureqa did in a few hours when running on a personal computer.” Read this several times over, please. This is massive. http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/10/robot-biologist/ View in LinkedIn

AUTOMATING SCIENCE. “A major step toward this goal by demonstrating that a computer can analyze raw experimental data from a biological system and derive the basic mathematical equations that describe the way the system operates.” http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/10/robot-biologist/ View in LinkedIn

HYPOTHESIS GENERATION BY ROBOT. "Adam runs yeast genetics experiments and made international headlines two years ago by making a novel scientific discovery without direct human input. This allowed the computer to generate hypotheses, then design and conduct actual experiments to test them.” http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/10/robot-biologist/ View in LinkedIn

A PRIORI DEDUCTION. "When they fed the data into Eureqa, it derived a series of equations that were nearly identical to the known equations.” Breathtaking! http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/10/robot-biologist/ View in LinkedIn

EUREQA. “Biology is the area where the gap between theory and data is growing the most rapidly...So it is the area in greatest need of automation. The biological system that the researchers used to test ABE is glycolysis, the primary process that produces energy in a living cell.” http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2011/10/robot-biologist/ View in LinkedIn

IMPORTANT NUANCE. “Taking into account the present scale of Google’s computer network, the size of its user base and its capital reserves, Google is well placed to take on something as ambitious as machine consciousness.’ Machine consciousness differs from machine intelligence.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2635011/Google-create-CONSCIOUS-computer-expert-claims.html View in LinkedIn

THE FUTURE IS NOW. “We can already see evidence of machine learning and machine intelligence in existing Google products like Google Now, the search function that forms part of Google+ Photos and Google’s self-driving car project.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2635011/Google-create-CONSCIOUS-computer-expert-claims.html View in LinkedIn

BIG RED HERRING. "What AI people are working towards is a conscious machine. And that until you have conscious machine, there's nothing to worry about. It's really a red herring." http://www.techinsider.io/artificial-intelligence-machine-consciousness-expert-stuart-russell-future-ai-2015-7 View in LinkedIn