bob.appleyard
Joined: 15 Oct 2005
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Location: Manchestar, innit
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:46 am Post subject: |
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Harbinger wrote: Many years ago I read a magazine article about how AI researchers were trying to "bootstrap" AI in a fashion similar to the way compilers were "bootstrapped" back in the late 60's, early 70's. For instance, the first C compiler was written in assembly but it was used to compile the C source code for a better C compiler. Thus, the new C compiler was able to compile it's own source code. In AI, the idea was to design an AI program that could design smarter AI programs so that, in theory, it would create a family tree of progressively smarter and more sophisticated AI programs and might eventually give rise to programs that are smarter and more creative than any human being. So far, the process has fizzled because human programmers apparently aren't creative or intelligent enough to create an initial AI program that is creative or intelligent enough to create more creative and intelligent child programs. :roll:
No offence, but what is the relevence? |
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