I read an article a while back about a company that is already doing this. I wish I could remember were I saw it...
The company has some custom software running that tries all possible permutations and bounces each result against a filter to eliminate obvious gibberish and such. I think it was only stories and food recipes right now; I don't think they were trying to generate any code. For the recipes, they pull the most promising ones and have a staff of chefs to try them out. Most turn out awful, but they had come up with a couple that added one or two weird ingredients to traditional recipes that turned out surprisingly good. The whole "million monkeys for a million years thing"... On the wall of their office, the have a poster on which is printed one of the software's early writings: "To be, or not to be." I will be interesting to see where this heads. Will computers eventually make even creativity obsolete? Matthew P. Smith Web Developer, Object Oriented Naval Education & Training Professional Development & Technology Center (NETPDTC) (850)452-1001 ext. 1245 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: David R. McGraw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:48 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: who on here did the death clock? "By then all code will be written by a program that can code in any language" I thought of an idea for a movie once, calling it "Duce Ex Machina" - it's latin for God machine. Think about a program that systematically goes through every combination of 1,000,000 chars... and then checks it to see if its executable... Eventually, it will code its self but better, Eventually it will code everything... and excute it. It would write novels, movie scripts, And in theroy, it would eventually write a 1,000,000 character story about YOU, ever detail being 100% correct. So if it creates itself but better, it will eventually create the perfect AI. and therefore become "the God Machine".... Although it would create Tera bytes of worthless crap too. But its a neat idea for a movie. David R. McGraw II ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
