Artificial Life Forms Evolve Basic Memory, Strategy 206
Calopteryx notes a New Scientist piece on how digital organisms in a computer world called Avida replicate, mutate, and have evolved a rudimentary form of memory. Another example of evolution in a simulation lab is provided by reader Csiko: "An evolutionary algorithm was used to derive a control strategy for simulated robot soccer players. The results are interesting — after a few hundred generations, the robots learn to defend, pass, and score — amazing considering that there was no trainer in the system; the self-organizing differentiated behavior of the players emerged solely out of the evolutionary process."
Oh... (Score:0, Funny)
I, for one, welcome our new artificial, man made overlords
God (Score:0, Funny)
We all know, God did this, and evolution is fake. This proves it!
World Cup 2014 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:World Cup 2014 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:World Cup 2014 (Score:3, Funny)
Can they snatch defeat from the jaws of Victory?
Hooligans (Score:2, Funny)
The study also found that the artificial fans of the losing team started to riot on their own.
Re:Oh... (Score:2, Funny)
Its allright, if they ever gain sentience we can defeat them with Vuvselas.
True fooball (soccer) behaviour (Score:5, Funny)
The robots need to become spoiled, overpaid millionaires, who refuse to train (France). Brag a lot (England) that their opponent is a bunch of "boys" (Germany), who are afraid of them. Then take a 4-1 shellacking from the "boys." And despite being the defending champions, and having a world class league in their country, bow out early. Because all of the players in their first class league are from South America (Italy), and the they have no good domestic players.
Robots with vuvuzelas? No, thanks. My next nightmare.
Re:Religion? (Score:3, Funny)
Where were you during the World Cup?
Soccer is a religion!
Re:God (Score:1, Funny)
Considering that we had dinosaurs for many millions of years it seems that god is rather bad at getting evolution to produce humans.
Re:Intelligent Design tag? (Score:5, Funny)
I would tag this as "more proof soccer sucks." Really, soccer aficionados claim they see all these advanced movements, and that someone really does play better.
But, let's face it, they don't. They're just a bunch of people running around randomly, and occasionally someone scores by pure chance. That's why the games are always 0-0.
Seeing good soccer in random movement is part of the faith, much like astrologers see divine constellations in the random pattern of stars in the night.
Re:Not really amazing... (Score:3, Funny)
>"amazing considering that there was no trainer in the system;"
Execution of the less-skilled makes up for a lot of training . . .