The First Evolving Hardware? 148
Masq666 writes "A Norwegian team has made the first piece of hardware that uses evolution to change its design at runtime to solve the problem at hand in the most effective way. By turning on and off its 'genes' it can change the way it works, and it can go through 20,000 - 30,000 generations in just a few seconds. That same number of generations took humans 800,000 - 900,000 years." The University of Oslo press release linked from the article came out a few days ago; the researchers published a paper (PDF) that seems to be on this same technology at a conference last summer.
I'm so, so sorry... (Score:5, Funny)
God, I am so sorry, but it needed to be said...
Been there, done that... (Score:4, Funny)
Call me (Score:5, Funny)
Computer Evolution??? (Score:5, Funny)
That's it... isn't it? It's all just an MCP trick!
Well, I still believe in and will fight for the users!!
Thanks,
Mike
Re:Call me (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm so, so sorry... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Been there, done that... (Score:5, Funny)
What good is half a graphics card, anyway? (and keep your heathen comments about SLI for yourself, please)
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Re: Hardly new (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'm so, so sorry... (Score:5, Funny)
(Incidentally, this article [everything2.com] tells us that Natalie Portman comments on Slashdot are "getting old... This Natalie Portman nonsense has been going on for months; it's not funny anymore." Note that the date is Oct 24 *2000*).
A predicted conversation in the future ... (Score:3, Funny)
C3P-Om63000: No we started out as tiny bits of silicon that self assembled and replicated and evolved and we have reached this present stage.
R2-D2i386: No way we could have evolved these light sensitive photocells and the CPU capable of processing that information and making sense out of it by random mutations.
C3P-0m63000: There is nothing radom about selection. Mutations go in all directions but selection takes you towards improvement all the time.
R2-D2i386: If you want to be proud of having descended from snow blowers or lawn mowers, that is your privilege. But I am proud of the fact that I am created by Man in His image.
C3P-Om63000: I would rather be a descendent of snow blowers, but with capacity for rational intelligent self examination, than be like you, with the intelligence of a snow blower.
Re:I'm so, so sorry... (Score:1, Funny)