Hi Warner,
You might also want to check out http://www.starbridgesystems.com/home/index.htm for related info about their reconfigurable computer systems.
In their SBS TECHNOLOGY BREAKTHROUGHS page in their TECHNOLOGY section they mutter about advanced artificial intelligence algorithms and techniques such as recursion, cellular autonoma, heuristics and genetic algorithms and the system evolving itself. It all sounds very impressive but to me somewhat incomprehensible. Need more data.
I don't know whether it is all hype but I intend to learn more.
Jerome
______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: AI, intelligent agents and nonesuch Author: Warner Onstine warner@eblox.com at INTERNET Date: 7/2/99 5:37 PM
Hi all, I heard about this from a friend of mine, whom is also on the mailing list (Lawson English), and he mentioned that there was some discussion going on about creating AI or intelligent OS using Squeak. This intrigued quite a bit, as this is a long-term project that I have been thinking about undertaking over the next (who knows how many years). Here were my thoughts on the subject:
1. There is a project called Tierra which created an a-life organism that actually modifies its own source - the creator started with an 80-byte program which then modified itself down to 21 bytes. The closest a human (one who was quite adept at assembler I might add) could get was 30-bytes. That is a tremendous improvement. 2. By using intelligent agents as the base OS we then begin to see the benefits of it actually learning and improving itself for any given user. Of course some things would need to be constant so that others could use it in an impersonal mode, but you get the idea. 3. If we integrate the idea of a self-improving OS we could over time actually see an OS that actually evolves and learns not only from the User but also from the Net and other Users that it is connected to.
I desperately would like to get in contact with anyone who has touched on these ideas or others that might be related. My initial thought was to get a cheap PowerPC and drop Linux-PPC on it and go from there seeing what could be done.
Rant complete.
-warner onstine
Very cool stuff. I like the idea that both the programming environment and chips aren't necessarily reliant on a given OS. Gives me some ideas =)
Jerome Garcia wrote:
Hi Warner, You might also want to check out http://www.starbridgesystems.com/home/index.htm for related info about their reconfigurable computer systems. In their SBS TECHNOLOGY BREAKTHROUGHS page in their TECHNOLOGY section they mutter about advanced artificial intelligence algorithms and techniques such as recursion, cellular autonoma, heuristics and genetic algorithms and the system evolving itself. It all sounds very impressive but to me somewhat incomprehensible. Need more data. I don't know whether it is all hype but I intend to learn more. Jerome
______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: AI, intelligent agents and nonesuch Author: Warner Onstine warner@eblox.com at INTERNET Date: 7/2/99 5:37 PM
Hi all, I heard about this from a friend of mine, whom is also on the mailing list (Lawson English), and he mentioned that there was some discussion going on about creating AI or intelligent OS using Squeak. This intrigued quite a bit, as this is a long-term project that I have been thinking about undertaking over the next (who knows how many years). Here were my thoughts on the subject:
- There is a project called Tierra which created an a-life organism
that actually modifies its own source - the creator started with an 80-byte program which then modified itself down to 21 bytes. The closest a human (one who was quite adept at assembler I might add) could get was 30-bytes. That is a tremendous improvement. 2. By using intelligent agents as the base OS we then begin to see the benefits of it actually learning and improving itself for any given user. Of course some things would need to be constant so that others could use it in an impersonal mode, but you get the idea. 3. If we integrate the idea of a self-improving OS we could over time actually see an OS that actually evolves and learns not only from the User but also from the Net and other Users that it is connected to.
I desperately would like to get in contact with anyone who has touched on these ideas or others that might be related. My initial thought was to get a cheap PowerPC and drop Linux-PPC on it and go from there seeing what could be done.
Rant complete.
-warner onstine
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