Glen E. P. Ropella wrote: > As for the robot, you're just begging the question. A robot is a tool > built and programmed by us. Or, positing a regression to where we are > currently, a robot_N that is built by robot_(N-1), that is built by > robot_(N-2), ..., is built by a living system. > I'm imagining that the program that the robot executes is also genetic program, but one that benefits from richer and more dynamic perceptual data than in purely simulated world. The genetic code can be inherited by the robot (a rusty old robot transfers its instructions to a new shiny robot), or the robot can evolve its own programs during its lifetime using simulation or experiment. The GP candidates are random perturbations against things that sort-of work, so the random noise eventually gets it or at one of its millions of peers out of local minima (relative to its objectives). There's also effectively noise in addition to the signals from the dynamically generated and evolving goo of the environment.
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