RE: Serious Problems with Atheism
January 18, 2017 at 6:50 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2017 at 7:24 pm by Angrboda.)
(January 18, 2017 at 4:43 pm)Pulse Wrote: To encode Information ALWAYS requires Intelligence and to deny this obvious observation is to deny reality.
That's not remotely true. "Dumb" evolutionary algorithms have been used to produce complicated neural nets that play checkers using only iteration, variation, and selection.
Quote:An evolutionary algorithm has taught itself how to play the game of checkers without using
features that would normally require human expertise. Using only the raw positions of pieces on
the board and the piece differential, the evolutionary program optimized artificial neural networks
to evaluate alternative positions in the game. Over the course of several hundred generations, the
program taught itself to play at a level that is competitive with human experts (one level below
human masters). This was verified by playing the best-evolved neural network against 165 human
players on an Internet gaming zone. The neural network’s performance earned a rating that is
better than 99.61 percent of all registered players at the website. Control experiments between the
best-evolved neural network and a program that relies on material advantage indicate the
superiority of the neural network both at equal levels of look-ahead and CPU time. The results
suggest that the principles of Darwinian evolution may be usefully applied to solving problems
that have not yet been solved by human expertise.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9814/4b...788d1b.pdf
Speaking of denying reality, you're also denying the power of biological evolution to encode information with that statement. But then, that was expected.
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