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Creatures from Primordial Silicon
- biotinker 4y agoThis is a really quite impressively written article about the very beginning about applying machine learning to circuit design, from the late 90s. Until I found the associated research paper, I at first wasn't sure if I was reading something real, or some elaborate, convincing creative sci-fi writing. The original 1997 research paper can be read here: https://cse-robotics.engr.tamu.edu/dshell/cs625/Thompson96Evolved.pdf https://cse-robotics.engr.tamu.edu/dshell/cs625/Thompson96Ev...
- bediger4000 4y agoHas anyone ever duplicated this, or at least tried to duplicate it? I mean, it's quite common to have an alife experiment evolve an exploit if there's a bug in some part of the artificial ecosystem, so I wouldn't be surprised it it's easy to duplicate.