Ask HN: Has anyone tried to use AI to generate an emergent programming language?

Re:Ask HN: Has anyone tried to use AI to generate an emergen... by zmj on Sunday October 18, 2020 @09:03AM (#24817579)

> In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6.

> “What are you doing?”, asked Minsky.

> “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied.

> “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky.

> “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.

> Minsky then shut his eyes.

> “Why do you close your eyes?”, Sussman asked his teacher.

> “So that the room will be empty.”

> At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone tried to use AI to generate an emergen... by hprotagonist on Sunday October 18, 2020 @09:18AM (#24817677)

i suppose it shouldn’t really surprise anyone that we are still having this argument perhaps 60 years later.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone tried to use AI to generate an emergen... by jacquesm on Sunday October 18, 2020 @12:08PM (#24818857)

What's the over/under on having it still 60 years from today?

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone tried to use AI to generate an emergen... by hprotagonist on Sunday October 18, 2020 @12:47PM (#24819145)

we’ve been arguing about tabula rasa since Aristotle, so it seems pretty likely that it will continue for another 60 years to me.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone tried to use AI to generate an emergen... by srtjstjsj on Sunday October 18, 2020 @11:22AM (#24818496)

AlphaZero and MuZero: "Hold my perceptron."

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone tried to use AI to generate an emergen... by prvc on Monday October 19, 2020 @11:02AM (#24826982)

Anyone care to explain the meaning of this?

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