OMG this is crazy!!! Technology Advancing Beyond Our Understanding?

Sorry for the typo's when spelling Algorithms. I was a bit excited when writing this and rushed it a little :)

its ok, just tell everybody, "Thats how we spell it in GB"

Great thread! I liked the part about dynamiting through rock...so an algorithm can be 3 microseconds quicker!

Perhaps it is the inevitable fate of intelligent life to be outsmarted by its own devices.

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for years...

during the 80 the Pentagon and the KGB(russia inteligence) invented each a big neuronal-network based software for getting information from web communication. The problem: these algorithms got so much complex, they started to communicate and exchange information. from the middle of '90s no one where able to understand the exchanged informations.

further:
during the 90's a biologist made a life-simulating program called 'sorry-forgot'. he simulated an enviroment, with limited resources, a dna-like code for creating life-forms, a 'destructor' for removing 'dead' life-forms and a random mutation mechanism. He created a 80-line life-form and run the simulation for testing. He got courious about to see the speed of development while this 1.st run. Very quick mutation created lifeforms with 60 lines of code. then appered virus-like lifeforms, without having 'replication'-code. similar to real life. also, a 'hyper-virus' of about 12 lines code appered. they were causing a virus to produce hyper-viruses.

there is a ghost in the shell...

THAT just freaked me out

^this^

Experiments are being done to have machines take in information (camera, environment) and make "their own choices" as to how to traverse the terrain...

Where then would putting algorithms in place to help them make their own assesments as to Friend or Foe and how to handle people in general, lead to?