Hi Chris >> Increasingly code is the result of genetic algorithms being run over many generations of Darwinian selection -- is this programmed code? What human hand wrote it? At how many removes?
In evolutionary computations the 'programmer' has control over the fitness function which ultimately guides the evolution of algorithms towards a highly specific goal. Moreover, outside of the IT lab, there is no competition for the algorithm to evolve against nor is there a genuine ecology supplying pressures against which selection can happen. Why? Because that is what the fitness function provides. It is wrong to suppose that genetic algorithms evolve without human input. The human input is as essential to the evolutionary technique as natural selection is to evolution proper. Without it nothing evolves at all. We might therefore find lurking in the some dark nether region of the inter web a program secretly plotting how to get from John o Groats to Lands End by the quickest route. But I don't think we'ld find much more than that. :) All the best. Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 19:59:46 -0700 From: meeke...@verizon.net To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Rambling on AI -- was: When will a computer pass the Turing Test? On 8/17/2013 4:53 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote: We must not limit the rise of AI to any single geo-located system and ignore just how fertile of an ecosystem the global networked world of machines and connected devices provides for a nimble highly virtualized AI that exist in no place at any given time, but has neurons in millions (possibly billions) of devices everywhere on earth... an AI that cannot be shut down without shutting down literally everything that is so deeply penetrated and embedded in all our systems that it becomes impossible to extricate. I am speculating of course and have no evidence that this is indeed occurring, but am presenting it as a potential architecture of awareness. I agree that such and AI is possible, but I think it is extremely unlikely for the same reason it is unlikely that an animal with human-like intelligence could evolve - that niche is taken. Your scenarios contemplate an AI that evolves somehow in secret and then spring upon us fully developed. But the evolving AI would show it's hand *before* it became superhumanly clever at hiding. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.