{"id":2661,"date":"2003-02-06T18:13:52","date_gmt":"2003-02-06T12:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/06\/now-software-imitates-life\/"},"modified":"2003-02-06T18:13:52","modified_gmt":"2003-02-06T12:43:52","slug":"now-software-imitates-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200302\/now-software-imitates-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Now software imitates life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><font size = -1>Evolution is an immensely powerful creative process. From the intricate biochemistry of individual cells to the elaborate structure of the human brain, it has produced wonders of unimaginable complexity. Evolution achieves these feats with a few simple processes&#8211;mutation, sexual recombination and natural selection&#8211;which it iterates for many generations. Now computer programmers are harnessing software versions of these same processes to achieve machine intelligence. Called genetic programming, this technique has designed computer programs and electronic circuits that perform specified functions. <\/font><\/cite>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?colID=1&#038;articleID=00073FCE-F36F-1E19-8B3B809EC588EEDF\">Scientific American: Evolving Inventions<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t read the whole article because subscription is required, but even the bit I could is interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evolution is an immensely powerful creative process. From the intricate biochemistry of individual cells to the elaborate structure of the human brain, it has produced wonders of unimaginable complexity. Evolution achieves these feats with a few simple processes&#8211;mutation, sexual recombination and natural selection&#8211;which it iterates for many generations. Now computer programmers are harnessing software versions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}