Author: William H Rogers
Date: 12:14:05 08/05/02
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I few years ago when I was activately investigating AI I read some reports from a couple of the larger universities in this country in this area. In one of the studies, the programmers had input electronic circuitry into the computer so that it could design new circuits as needed. In going over some of the advanced designs that the computer had printed out, they discovered that the computer had come up against a block and then did something that supprised all of them. It had designed a new transistor to make the circuit work. The amazing thing about this transistor was that it was a three-deminsional design. A patent was applied for in the computers name and granted. Just in the last week or so I read that either IBM or INTEL have now been experinting with 3D circuits in computer designs, that is the circuits can new be 'layered' rather than just built on a horizonal level. In the other university, the computer had some basic mathematical functions programmed in and then programmed to experiment and to learn. At any point in its learning, they could ask for a printout of its theorms and axions used to prove it findings. They went on to say that in no time at all the computer had taught itself algebra, then geomerty, trig and calculus. At the last reporting they stated that the computer program had advanced to a level that was beyond anything that humans had ever seen or understood before and not even their mathematical Phd's could even began to understand what the computer had figured out even with the proofs for them to read. One last thing on computers in general, although we have been developing digital computers and indeed their circuitry has been improving at a very fast rate, there still exits another kind of computer circuitry that had bearly scratched the surface and that is the analog computer circuits. Analog circuits in many ways mostly immulate the way a human brain works. Who is to say that someday they will not advance to a higher level that we can obtain as humans. It will take humans or maybe digital computers to design such a machine, but then once it works who is to say that it might not redisign itself even more? Bill
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