Posted on April 12, 2010.
Inventing human built machine John Koza has made a serious breakthrough when it comes to computing power of today and our hopes for her in the future. Studying computers since his high school supervision in the 1950s, Koza was a man who aspired to make inroads in the world around him. As a clear example of his ingenuity, he could not afford a computer at school, from mainframes taking entire rooms of the time and cost much more than the modern computer. To this end, John assembled pieces of the gadgets around him, and with pieces of pinball machines and jukeboxes old, he finds himself with a computer that could calculate exactly what day of the week a certain date would fall on.
John's latest invention goes far beyond his computer when decoding fifties. 1000 using networked computers running in tandem, the new device uses genetic programming to solve problems. Basically what the machine is just following the laws of Darwin's survival of the fittest - it compiles the code, testing code against another, and determine which use the most accurate code. And the machine has not been built with one goal in mind but rather that he uses is "thinking process" to solve complex technical problems in manufacturing and production of everything you can think . And he does probably better than a human being. The machine is well within the operating conditions, as Koza has already made a breakthrough engineering with it. More recently, the machine has developed a type of lens system that can be used in telescopes and binoculars that offer a better field of vision than any other type of lens created before that date, and it does not affect patent. To achieve this feat, the program has generated 75,000 random types of lenses. Hence, it is connected "drawings, taking the characteristics that have served in one and place them with features that were necessary in another. Hence, generation after generation, is created until each part of the design specifications are met. For the lens, the machine processed 295 generations before reaching a final solution. The machine has been proved useful in other inventions as well. This announces a breakthrough in which computers may soon be a lot of our thinking for us. The machine has already received the first patent granted to a non-human, and the sky is the limit.