Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Cfengine and AI Author: mark Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,20185,20187#msg-20187
Neil, this is a fascinating topic and it reminds me of the the comparison between 1. the evolution of intelligence 2. the evolution of the immune system Both of these biological systems have evolved to solve complex search problems. The immune system, like Cfengine, uses `dumb principles' iterated to achieve an emergent result, while the brain models and reasons more directly, but with huge overhead (no pun intended, but it works quite well!). The main difference is that the modelling has a lot of overhead and ends up costing the body 10-20% of all its energy budget. In the same way, I suspect that AI would not result in a "lightweight" system which is what Cfengine aims to be, but would grind the system to a halt. One of the things that will be added to Cfengine's commercial products over the coming years in a lot more "AI" reasoning capabilities at a central super-brain location so it does not cost the infrastructure much to run. I intend to write more about this when I get time. Last year, Nova already created the "nervous system" for this project. This year will see a lot more progress on this. Why not start a discussion on Cfengine and AI or immunity somewhere like arstechnica and see what kind of ideas a broad audience come up with. It could be a fascinating read. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
