RE: UKNM: Needle in a haystack?

[paul youlten]

Piers,


he (from MIT but not marvin) says:


"It is wrong to think of computer viruses as being unsophisticated...in some

ways they are the most advanced form of 'artificial life' just as 'real'

viruses are the most highly evolved form of 'real life'."


he adds "of course i am defining life being as anything that DNA uses to

replicate itself."


he has gone to a meeting...i am off for a siesta


paul


> -----Original Message-----

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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Piers

> Beckley

> Sent: martes, 06 de junio de 2000 12:41

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To: uk-netmarketingmail [dot] chinwag [dot] com

> Subject: RE: UKNM: Needle in a haystack?

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> > Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:08:49 +0200

>

> From: "paul youlten" <paulisoco [dot] com>

> > Subject: RE: UKNM: Needle in a haystack?

> >

> > tell me what you want to say and i'll ask the guy next to me (visiting

> > professor of artifical intelligence from MIT) to say it for you.

> >

> > same goes to everyone in UKNM...just tell me what you want him to say.

>

> Could you ask him about the implications on the Internet of evolutionary

> robotics and artificial life, please? At what point does he think that the

> Internet could support more sophisticated forms of life than viruses? How

> long after that point would he expect to see such life-forms? What sort of

> degradation in the network would be acceptable to users, and what level

> would bring people to commit program genocide on them? Once loose in the

> wild could they ever be defeated or contained? And how long after

> that would

> the little buggers become self-aware?

>

> :)

>

> Piers



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