Friday, October 15, 2010

collin's post



Collin kliewe

'Computers have been one of the most important discoveries in recent times. Computers are running more efficiently every year; but how long will it be until humans are able to replicate something so complex we don't even understand it? I’m talking of course about artificial intelligence. Programming sentience is no small feat, the brain is astounding and complicated; however great strides in artificial intelligence has been made. The idea was, artificial intelligence could be created, it would just take a very long time. If you were to go towards this “direct route” first you would need to understand how the natural human mind works, and that task so far has proved near impossible. But now a new idea has emerged, what if we gave very simple programs the means to “evolve” and put them through a “natural selection” scenario? The results were astounding! And they continued onward to be known as evolutionary computation. This science allows the programs to basically work themselves out, and possibly one day evolve sentience.


  1. Discovery

One of the greatest pioneers in evolutionary computation is a man by the name of Larry Yaeger. He created a simple evolutionary computation program, but it eventually evolved into the complicated (yet fascinating) polyworld. He has discovered with his program, that computer programs can actually perceive sight, evolve survival strategies, swarm behavior, communication and even cannibalism!

  1. Biography of Investigator
    Larry Yaeger has used computers to solve a wide variety of problems throughout his career. Having studied Aerospace Engineering, with a focus on computers, he carried out pioneering computational fluid dynamic flow studies over the space shuttle and submarines. As Director of Software Development at Digital Productions, he used a Cray X-MP supercomputer to generate the computer graphic special effects for Hollywood films The Last Starfighter, 2010, and Labyrinth, as well a number of Clio Award-winning television commercials. While with Alan Kay's Vivarium Program at Apple Computer, he designed and programmed a computer "voice" for Koko the gorilla, helped introduce Macintosh’s into routine production on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and created a widely respected Artificial Life computational ecology ("Polyworld") that evolves neural architectures resulting from the mutation and recombination of genetic codes, via behavior-based, sexual reproduction of artificial organisms. He also co-authored possibly the first book+CD-ROM title, the award-winning Visualization of Natural Phenomena. Also at Apple, in the Advanced Technology Group, he was Technical Lead in the development of the neural network-based hand-print recognition system, the world's first genuinely usable handwriting recognition system, showcased in second generation Newton PDAs and Mac OS X's "Inkwell". He currently resides in scenic Beanblossom, Indiana, and teaches and performs research in Artificial Life at Indiana University.

  2. Impact on the World/Humanity

    Formation of artificial intelligence is very important to the world. It could impact the way we see finance, medicine, computing, games, teaching, music, aviation and mo 5

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