You're right that most possible programs are useless and uninteresting. So I agree with you that if a learning program was given problems to solve that are gene

You're right that most possible programs are useless and uninteresting. So I agree with you that if a learning program was given problems to solve that are generated by generating random programs, that wouldn't be interesting. I am not suggesting doing that. What I am suggesting is that the problems-to-solve be generated by humans. Incidently what I am suggesting isn't quite inductive programming but something slightly more general, in that the job of the problem-solver isn't to generate a program that solves the input/output pairs, but to guess what the next output will be depending on its input. (The problem-solver may or may not do this by internally creating a program that solves the problem). Anyway I've done a quick write-up of what I propose: http://www.includipedia.com/wiki/User:Cabalamat/Function_predictor http://www.includipedia.com/wiki/User:Cabalamat/Function_pre...