From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 11:47:35 MDT
Samantha Atkins complains,
> > You don't need a particularly fast computer to run digital evolution
software.
>
> You sure as hell do if you are going to replay all of evolution from
> bacteria to human beings as was initially implied.
Artificial Intelligence and/or Artificial Life does not imply replaying all of
evolution from bacteria to human beings, it implies evolving life forms in
billions of generations from intelligent digital agents to genetically
programmed evolvable machines. If Tom Ray or someone else has evolved artificial
life with a 486 computer, then that means it doesn't require a particularly fast
computer by today's standards. It requires a particularly novel set of
algorithms, and genetic programming produced dozens of novel solutions last year
(or so I've read).
--J. R.
"Something beckons within the reach of each of us
to save heroic genius. Find it, and do it.
For as goes heroic genius, so goes humankind."
--Alligator Grundy, _Analects of Atman_
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