On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:38:21PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > I'm not certain copying such an entity will be as trivial as it is with > present-day digital data, for, unlike the human brain which is > self-contained, an AI will inevitably be a vast web of connections > distributed across computing resources.
Evolvability is a fitness criterium, so this means entities that are difficult to copy and recombine will be selected away over several generations. > Copying will imply a deep copy of distributed data structures, > separating them from existing references. Given these structures are You're projecting your current knowledge and experience in IT. But postbiota are not made from human-designed elements. Anything that you're familiar with doesn't apply. > also continuously in use, I dare say it's one hairy operation. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
