Alife?

[Helo]

Do you think that Alife, (or Artificial Life, a life process simulated by a computer such as the Creatures series) if given enough time could advance itself beyond what it was programmed to do?

For instance, in the computer game Creatures, you raise animals called Norns. The creatures are able to change through mating and exchanging DNA, they can change color, apperance, behavior, and assorted other things. Now if you bred them for long enough, could these creatures advance beyond thier original programming due to the natural progress of evolution?

Granted it might take a considerable ammount of time before that would occur, but do you think it would EVENTUALLY?

 

[Moros]

Heh, no.

 

[Helo]

Ok...why not?

 

[Spinrad]

Do you think that Alife, (or Artificial Life, a life process simulated by a computer such as the Creatures series) if given enough time could advance itself beyond what it was programmed to do?

For instance, in the computer game Creatures, you raise animals called Norns. The creatures are able to change through mating and exchanging DNA, they can change color, apperance, behavior, and assorted other things. Now if you bred them for long enough, could these creatures advance beyond thier original programming due to the natural progress of evolution?

Granted it might take a considerable ammount of time before that would occur, but do you think it would EVENTUALLY?

Not without some kind of randomizing inpetus to get "better" at things and an open environment to utilize, I wouldn't think. Of course "beyond what it was programmed to do" is a fairly foggy statement.

 

[chrispykreme]

I don't see that happening. If we were smart enough to create something like that, we would be smart enough to know how to get rid of it...


that and the simple fact that robots taking over is rediculous.

 

[Oidhche]

I don't see that happening. If we were smart enough to create something like that, we would be smart enough to know how to get rid of it...


that and the simple fact that robots taking over is rediculous.

I keep imagining how ridiculous your post will sound in a thousand years to a class of little robots when they hear about it from they'll robot history teacher.

"I think there's a world market for about five computers" - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1952.

 

[The-Doctor]

To go "beyond its programme" the system would have to have the ability to learn more than it was given.

 

[DailyBlessings]

I don't think a computer program could ever really evolve, in a biological sense. Even if it had learning abilities, we still define the protocols by which they learn. They are on some level, bound to be predictable.

 

[MartinM]

They are on some level, bound to be predictable.

So are biological systems.

 

[DailyBlessings]

So are biological systems.

True enough

 

[psychedelicist]

A computer act outside it's programming? Heck, even WE can't do that yet.