Long ago when I was still programming in Delphi I spent some time researching AI (artificial intelligence) with ANN (artificial neural network) and GA (genetic algorithms).
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The result was a little simulator I called “neuronal warzone”. Just recently when I was talking to a coworker I remembered it and decided to open source it on bitbucket. So here we go: www.bitbucket.org/Extrawurst/neuronalwarzone
The little agents in the population of 20 are trying to kill each other. Survival of the fittest at its core. So the main heuristic is how success you are in killing the other. The ANN is pretty simple since otherwise it is possible that you have to wait a couple of thousand years until some form of intel evolves. Anyway the ANN decides where to turn to and how fast to travel. The rest is done automatically. After a certain amount of time a generation is stopped and recombines its elite and apply some mutation to form the successors and the game of life begins again.
It is amazing to see how fast some simple forms of intelligence evolve. I whish I had more time to research more here. I put it on my TODO-list for “later” Image may be NSFW.
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Let’s see when this will be…
