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But even with all this activity, no one has taken up the pursuit of digital intelligence with as much audacity or ambition as Lenat and Brooks. Their parallel quests to build what may be the world's first convincingly humanlike computer programs have been compared to the dramatic 1911 Amundsen...
Cog, on the other hand, embodies the principles of AI's breakaway faction, the so-called bottom-up school. Inspired more by biological structures than by logical ones, the bottom-uppers don't bother trying to write down the rules of thought. Instead they try to conjure thought up by...
The idea of harnessing Darwinian evolution to help humans do their programming is gaining currency, especially in the biologically oriented milieu in which Brooks and Maes operate. Farsighted proponents of this school imagine huge populations of digital agents meeting and mating in increasingly complex global networks--creating in their progeny...
We may meet them sooner than even these visionaries imagine. Within the next few weeks, in Kyoto, Japan, an ecobiologist and radically bottom-up computer theorist named Tom Ray will initiate an open-ended experiment he calls a "digital biodiversity reserve." A single, tiny, self-reproducing program will be loosed...
After that, even Ray doesn't know what will happen. Perhaps the population will reach stasis and stagnate at the level of pond scum. Or perhaps Ray's digital beings will set off down the same sort of evolutionary path our species has traveled, only at electron speed. And if...