Diverse themes observed at GECCO 2006 | Notional Slurry
order to reflect individually and collectively on what they were being called to do and where they were to focus their energies; and then three weeks of prototyping initiatives.
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
The image that came to me when thinking about the lab was that of strapping a rocket to a car and lighting the fuse. A fuse had been lit underneath us, and we were burning jet fuel at a prodigious rate, zooming along this pre-plotted trajectory in a small, closed space. While in theory we could change the basic parameters of our journey, in practic
... See moreJoi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
The rush evoked by fractal imagery, the algorithms used for habitat selection, metastasize into art. Thrills that once had to be earned in increments of fitness can now be had from pointless introspection. Aesthetics rise unbidden from a trillion dopamine receptors, and the system moves beyond modeling the organism. It begins to model the very proc
... See morePeter Watts • Blindsight (Firefall Book 1)
As our science and technology develop further, individual achievements may become increasingly rare as distributed groups become necessary to bring together all the knowledge required to solve hard problems.
Scott Young • Get Better at Anything
The two most important problems (at least how I am thinking about them currently), are:
Finding a rigorous scientific framework for how different agent skills, personalities, and instructions combine to be most capable for different problems (think of this as social management science for AI agents) .
Figuring out how you formally validate and verify... See more
Finding a rigorous scientific framework for how different agent skills, personalities, and instructions combine to be most capable for different problems (think of this as social management science for AI agents) .
Figuring out how you formally validate and verify... See more