Name: Anonymous 2009-10-12 19:51
Anyone on /prog/ ever smoke marijuana and then start coming up with really great ideas for your code, or just computer science ideas in general?
For example, I got an idea that perhaps a way to implement an A.I. is with a chain of randomly-generated finite state machines, linked together so that one's output becomes another's input, etc. The structure of this chain could be determined by some sort of "DNA" with "genes". Then you could use a genenic algorithm to find better and better genes until the resulting chain of finite state machines exhibits macro behavior in the form of A.I.
For example, I got an idea that perhaps a way to implement an A.I. is with a chain of randomly-generated finite state machines, linked together so that one's output becomes another's input, etc. The structure of this chain could be determined by some sort of "DNA" with "genes". Then you could use a genenic algorithm to find better and better genes until the resulting chain of finite state machines exhibits macro behavior in the form of A.I.