Hi all,
Some of you may be interested in the following:
DISCOVER Vol. 22 No. 1 (January 2001)
Machines That Think
By Brad Lemley
The full article is at
http://www.discover.com/jan_01/gthere.html?article=featmachines.html
Here is an extract to give you a taste
<Quote>
For most of their existence, computers have been little more than
complex adding machines, tabulating data and spitting out useful but
prosaic results. Now, employing a new kind of programming based on
biological evolution, computers are invading what we thought was among
the last uniquely human spheres- true, original, even artful creativity.
"We're not used to computers creatively solving problems," says David
Goldberg, chairman of the International Society for Genetic and
Evolutionary Computation. "But it's happening."
The engine behind the revolution is called evolutionary computation. Its
basic premise is that the most capable and efficient things on the
planet came into being through evolution- not as the brainchild of an
individual designer. After all, the human hand makes the most dexterous
robotic claw look like nothing more than a pair of rusty pliers.
</quote>
Jonathan Marder
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