Chipping the web: August 27th

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1. Ole Phat Stu says:

   August 28, 2008 at 10:52 am

   Re: creative AI :

   Back in the 80s I wrote a couple of textbooks about (elementary) AI, Chip. One of them contained source code in Prolog for doing the simplest kind of machine creativity, basically working its way through a combinatorial explosion of interface definitions.
   Constraint rules restricted the size of the explosion-space.
   You merely defined what inputs (sensors?) were available and what outputs you wanted and let the program work out the nitty gritty of the HW design in the middle

   The big brother of that simple program produced some original HW designs And yet it was too brittle.

   I point you to the work of Doug Lenat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Lenat) whose work at CyC is still ongoing (but, I fear, a dead end).

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   • Sterling Camden says:

     August 28, 2008 at 11:35 am

     Wow, Stu, I bet that code would be pretty interesting to read. And thanks for the WP link.

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2. apotheon says:

   August 28, 2008 at 1:51 pm

   There’s some nontrivial similarity between myself and the Learning Lisp list of personality traits, too.

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   • Sterling Camden says:

     August 28, 2008 at 2:00 pm

     Yeah, it’s scary. Some of them I wouldn’t have admitted before.

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3. teeni says:

   August 30, 2008 at 7:41 pm

   LOL – I especially got a kick out of the banana test link this time around. Maybe I’m just glad that the banana got spared in this scenario. LOL.

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   • Sterling "Chip" Camden says:

     September 2, 2008 at 9:25 am

     Shelley certainly has a realistic view of JavaScript — er, I mean, ECMAScript.

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