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One step closer to Skynet

Started by Brian Cunningham, 2009-08-20T17:43:36-05:00 (Thursday)

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Tangent Orchard

That's pretty amazing. o_O And they actually started looking for an absense of light?  Wow.

Alex Towell

It's not suprising.

If this is newsworthy at all, and I would argue that it's not, it is because this 'feat' was achieved with unguided evolutionary programming. The robotics itself is quite unsophisticated, and so one might wonder: why even perform this experiment with actual robotics when one could have more quickly and cheaply did the same experiment through simulation?
Alex Towell
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