Comment Re:Taken out of context, clearly. (Score 1) 870
But we're probably the only species to try predict the effects of our actions and think "hey, maybe we could do this differently..."
1. "Trick" is frequently used in scientific context to mean "clever method" or "correction".
Better link (excludes authors named Trick).
I remember when you could come to slashdot and truly read original content. Now all these sites just seem to regurgitate the same thing.
If I hear that word one more time I'm gonna jump off allege.
Third, the kind of algorithms they describe sound more like neural nets with a large combinatoric variation of units, layers, feedback components, and sundry other possible variants. These seem to me to be both a biologically plausible mechanism for a biologically inspired vision model, not to mention a viable candidate for the pattern recognition of a wide range of vision targets. GA-based mechanism would be too symbolic and boolean to be biologically plausible, and too rigid in matching specific input patterns.
Actually, using GAs (an optimization method) to train a neural network (an optimization problem) is a fairly common technique.
Without life, Biology itself would be impossible.
