Natural artificial intelligence...
Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 3:02 am
Oxymoron? You bet!
Just finished watching some documentry on dinosuars/evolution, etc...always been interested in that stuff...and because I love what we do as well...I often try and find similarities between them...personally I see tonnes.
Got me thinking...if the genome is anaologous to the machine code of a software program (in concept)...then if given enough time and processing power...I wonder what would happen if you randomly (using real variables pulled from the internet) let a program generate binary files and executed them as Windows binaries or something similar...
With the genuine variability of input from Internet sources (stocks, weather, etc) and say 10000 years...I wonder if the output would ever result in something useful, like a calculator or operating system or perhaps an intelligent, natural (due to osmosis not direct human intervention), but non-organic life form...
If you created a binary executable the same size, as say Windows kernel...and just randomly over a period of 10,000 years tweaked a byte at a time and ran the code...eventually...in theory...you would reproduce the exact results and/or possibly end up with something better...
That is essentially (as my understanding goes) how evolution works and has worked...atomic mutations over billions of years resulted in life as we know it...creepy....it's like living in the matrix...
Cheers
Just finished watching some documentry on dinosuars/evolution, etc...always been interested in that stuff...and because I love what we do as well...I often try and find similarities between them...personally I see tonnes.
Got me thinking...if the genome is anaologous to the machine code of a software program (in concept)...then if given enough time and processing power...I wonder what would happen if you randomly (using real variables pulled from the internet) let a program generate binary files and executed them as Windows binaries or something similar...
With the genuine variability of input from Internet sources (stocks, weather, etc) and say 10000 years...I wonder if the output would ever result in something useful, like a calculator or operating system or perhaps an intelligent, natural (due to osmosis not direct human intervention), but non-organic life form...
If you created a binary executable the same size, as say Windows kernel...and just randomly over a period of 10,000 years tweaked a byte at a time and ran the code...eventually...in theory...you would reproduce the exact results and/or possibly end up with something better...
That is essentially (as my understanding goes) how evolution works and has worked...atomic mutations over billions of years resulted in life as we know it...creepy....it's like living in the matrix...
Cheers