On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > That's not artificial intelligence, though. It's artificial program > generation based on a known target output. The "Fitness" calculation > is based on a specific target string. This is fine for devising a > program that will produce the entire works of Shakespeare, since there > is a target string for that (actually, several targets, plus you have > to work out whether you want the works of Shakespeare or the works of > some guy named Bacon... mmm bacon), but I suggest that a more > sophisticated and useful goal be implemented.
Indeed, it seems to me that this is basically Richard Dawkins' weasel program, with the addition of a transformation step in the fitness function that amounts to running the string through a Brainfuck interpreter. There is a rather large gap between this and getting computers to generate programs that do anything interesting. I am curious about how he deals with infinite loops in the generated programs. Probably he just kills the threads after they pass some time threshold? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
