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WCDT 3056-3060 (5-9 Oct 2015)
ZoeB:
It's been just over 20 years since I evolved (via genetic algorithms) a simple rules-based system AI for missile defence.
Not very bright - maybe the equivalent of a spiny lobster - but in simulated engagements, seriously scary. It took hours to analyse the logs of a 20 second scenario. The actions were far too quick for a high level consciousness to follow. Even the displays lagged, things were happening too fast.
I didn't "design" or "program" the system. I just threw a population of systems into a series of attack scenarios. Those that survived got to breed the next generation. Rinse, lather, repeat. Then trimmed the result so a trivial inefficiency in some known cases was traded for decreased reaction time and thus better performance in unforeseen and unforeseeable situations.
The results were seriously scary in tests, as I said.
themacnut:
Well, so much for Pintsize being the one to break the ice. More like he was the one who got broken (okay disassembled). Knowing Pintsize, he probably almost certainly deserved it.
EDIT: in case someone might be inclined to say "he didn't deserve to be taken apart", bear in mind he was messing with an AI in a combat chassis that could have literally destroyed him. With one punch. Considering that, Pintsize got off easy.
I will be surprised if Bubbles is still at the party next comic. She was already having a terrible time making a connection to anyone there and Pintsize's antics may have been the last straw.
War Sparrow:
"Are those astronaut pants? Because I can see uranus in them!"
That's my guess. Maybe Pintsize has never been crude to her before, and his revert to form was the last straw. I guess we will see.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: War Sparrow on 08 Oct 2015, 05:41 ---"Are those astronaut pants? Because I can see uranus in them!"
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I prefer "Because that booty is out of this world!"
I wonder if Bubbles has bothered to consider the ramifications of the fact that three out of the four Synthetics that she's met at the party have found her sexually attractive in some way?
snubnose:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 07 Oct 2015, 23:41 ---Not at all. If the software is self-modifying (rewriting itself for greater efficiency) then it doesn't automatically need a neural network. All it needs is a vast active memory and a powerful processor as all parts of the algorithm need to be actively processed at all times. This, by the way, may be the 'unique hardware' that Momo referred to - a new generation of CPUs and RAM memory systems that are orders of magnitude greater in capacity and more powerful than the current silicon/gallium semi-conductors.
Neural networks were an attempt to recreate the architecture of biological brains as hardware. The technology slammed into an upper limit at about cockroach-equivalent due to the difficulty of building the physical interlinks between the 'neurons'. Polymorphic code has apparently solved this problem because it was a paradigm shift away from thinking that an AI must necessarily physically resemble a primate brain.
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Re-read what you answered to. Your posting doesnt oppose mine.
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