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"Biomimicry has always been the way forward in every industry" Care to elaborate? Certainly classical computers don't look a whole lot like the information pro
by _yosefk 10y ago
"Biomimicry has always been the way forward in every industry"
Care to elaborate? Certainly classical computers don't look a whole lot like the information processing of any living being (I guess one could argue that they mimic what humans do with pencil and paper, but it seems a bit of a stretch.) To me other things like say human-made engines also don't look that similar to any life form, but then I think I know very little outside computing, relatively to say the average person here, and hence I'm genuinely curios about your remark and "wouldn't be surprised to hear something surprising."
- KasianFranks 10y agoNon-linear DNA computing. In addition, getting systems to compute based on words - see: https://www.kaggle.com/c/word2vec-nlp-tutorial/forums/t/12349/word2vec-is-based-on-an-approach-from-lawrence-berkeley-national-lab https://www.kaggle.com/c/word2vec-nlp-tutorial/forums/t/1234... e.g. Austria - Capital = Vienna OR 12 x 12 = 144 We continue to mimic nature in our scientific endeavors and the brain, as the best pattern matcher we know of, is no exception.
- gavanwoolery 10y agoExactly. When anybody dares to tell me this is an unsolvable problem, I tell them that nature has already solved it. :) We just need to figure out what nature is doing and how to reproduce that with digital, analog, or biomechanical machinery (which is of course, no small task).