This is interesting and makes you wonder where it could go.

http://www.newsobserver.com/standing/colle...0000014439.html

 

that's insane.
I see "The Matrix" coming to real life here.

 

You called ?

 

Let's hope one of these machines does not evolve into a psychotic killer like HAL did in 2001, a Space Odyssey.

 

A while ago, I read a book Artificial Life by Steven Levy that discusses this topic - although from a software perspective, not hardware. Genetic algorithms are fascinating.

 

I read an IEEE journal article a couple years back about genetic algorithms being applied to FPGAs, very similar to this same experiment mentioned here.

These chips evolved to distinguish between the two tones and self-invented circuit designs that have never been seen before, using induction off of other parts of the circuit to communicate to itself.

The problem: the chip is non-adaptive. It takes generations to adapt to new conditions. Even a change in ambient temps of a few degrees made the chip fail to operate properly without re-growth.

Also remember that the goals of the chip still need to be programmed in. It's not quite THAT freethinking....yet

 

It will be a few years before we get into HAL territory.

 

seems kinda of scary to me, eventually we dont even need humans anymore.

 

haha

 

What with battery operated device and the like, they have just about done away with the need for men... why not women as well