Re: Best Programming language for AI in Nanobots


On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:05:52 -0000
rhooker123@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> >Possibly - another possibility is that they may be better
> >programmed by evolutionary techniques such as the work of Adrian Thompson
> >at Sussex.
>
> Perhaps, but if I build a device which someone can swallow and will
> reproduce itself in the boy and bind with HIV and escort them out of
> the body I think I want to make a machine, not a being, and will simply

Sure you want a machine, but the use of evolutionary techniques in
programming or even designing that machine does not make it a being, or
even capable of evolving further.

> code the reproduction system and the chemical bonding surface.

I would want it not to antagonise any of the bodies own defense
mechanisms or grab anything other than HIV. It may be easier to produce
the desired characteristics by evolutionary means than by design - one
of the interesting things about Adrian Thompson's results was that the
evolved designs were orders of magnitude smaller[1] than anything a human
designer would come up with.

Given the subtleties of behaviour at the atomic level it seems
to me that it may be easier to design a set of acceptance criteria and
a mechanism for evolving designs than it is to design precise behaviour
of complex molecules.

[1] I would say simpler but for the most part nobody has been able to
understand how they work.

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