RE: [agi] more interesting stuff

[Ben Goertzel]

Kevin,   I think that the interesting ideas in this article do NOT have AI implications, unless one is talking about achieving AI through an evolutionary Alife framework.   The dynamics of "evolution" through progressive self-re-engineering will, in my view, be pretty different from the dynamics of evolution through natural selection.   -- Ben     -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Kevin Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 8:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [agi] more interesting stuff Does this have AI implications??   The idea that there are large-scale trends in the evolution of biological organisms, such as increasing complexity, is highly controversial. But Peter Turney presents a simple computational model showing that local adaptation to a dynamic, randomly changing environment results in a global trend towards increasing evolutionary versatility, which implies an accelerating evolutionary pace, and that this trend can continue without bound if there is sufficient ongoing change in the environment.   http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=memelist.html?m=1%23550   Kevin