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| From | Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> |
| Subject | Re: FYI: AI-programmer |
| Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:35:18 +0000 |
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On 22/02/2013 19:21, Ian Kelly wrote: ......... > > Indeed, it seems to me that this is basically Richard Dawkins' weasel > program, with the addition of a transformation step in the fitness > function that amounts to running the string through a Brainfuck > interpreter. There is a rather large gap between this and getting > computers to generate programs that do anything interesting. ...... this has been done before over and over eg http://www.ooblick.com/software/evolve/ http://hampshire.edu/lspector/push.html I think if the OP could get his brainf*ck algorithm to produce a self printing program in brainf*ck that would be quite amusing, but for real advances I suggest he makes it generate itself. His fitness is fairly silly since it has no idea of fitness except success; minimizing the cpu/memory/program length etc etc are all additional measures that could be added/used. -- Robin Becker
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Re: FYI: AI-programmer Robin Becker <robin@reportlab.com> - 2013-02-25 12:35 +0000
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