On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:54:53AM -0500, John Mikes wrote: > I wonder if a 'robot' can produce a "noch nie dagewesen" (Ger. for brand > new) unrelated idea?
I do know Hod Lipson from the ALife community, but am not familiar with this particular piece of research. From the WIRED article, I understand this to be a particular implementation of inductive reasoning by machine. It is impressive enough that this is possible, but I don't for one minute think that they have approached the creative power of a human being. But it certainly feasible that humans are really just more so of what this machine does. Still, the whole area of machine learning, and minimum length description has some very interesting surprises in store, which is why I've never bought Colin's argument. For instance John Koza's genetic programs have created several electronic circuits, some of which were patentable, so fit the requirement of noch nicht dagewesen. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [email protected] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
