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Xcelerate
Did anyone see the Popular Science article on the Invention Machine, a series of computers that uses genetic algorithms and "natural selection" to develop things in innovative ways? Basically, it creates a random set of inventions, analyzes the best traits in the set, merges and mutates, then iterates the process many times. What' interesting is that the thing's even received patents!

Some of its inventions include:


    Antenna that outperforms NASA's (and looks like a bent paperclip)
    A lens that has 10 degrees greater view range than the best currently manufactured


What happens when it reinvents itself to make it more efficient, determines humans are obselete, and hacks into a robotics factory? (Okay, that's bordering on sci-fi but I wanted to say it.)
Assiez
yeah, just read that article today.

but the key point right now is that even though the computer is "creative" when it is crunching massive amount of numbers, it still needs that human to give it its so called creativity.
Bondings
Assiez wrote:
but the key point right now is that even though the computer is "creative" when it is crunching massive amount of numbers, it still needs that human to give it its so called creativity.

Once it's complex enough, this isn't even needed anymore.
deleenheir
sounds like a fun ide for adistributed computing project...
assex
I guess a computer can never be as creative as a human being can just for one simple reason:

WE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE CREATED COMPUTERS!

Don't you forget that. I don't really think that such an 'invention machine' will really work. I mean, it's a machine, it'll think from a machine's point of view, not a human's!
Reaper
assex wrote:
I guess a computer can never be as creative as a human being can just for one simple reason:

WE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE CREATED COMPUTERS!

Don't you forget that. I don't really think that such an 'invention machine' will really work. I mean, it's a machine, it'll think from a machine's point of view, not a human's!

ah well there's a problem with that, it is already working. And thats the point we want it to think from another point of view, not our own ignorant views on how things should be done because it's nice to look at things from another view point every now and then you know?
If we take your statement as true then our own children and their children can never be as smart as the previous generation. Of course I'm switching human with parents and computer with offspring but its basicly the same concept.
So why can't computers eventually surpass us in well almost everything?
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