The Powder Toy

TPT evolution? by perogiepro

perogiepro
perogiepro
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24th Aug 2015
22nd Dec 2015
We are the SFPI, we are searching for mechanical life that can detect danger and think. essentialy basic AI. Our end goal is to make one that can replicate and change, so it will """evolve"""
machine intelligence experiment neuron life survival challange evolution spfi

Comments

  • Technomancer
    Technomancer     24th Aug 2015
    This would be pretty hard to implement properly though, both due to space limitations and the challenge of building a 'mutation device' which has at least a slight chance of causing non-destructive changes. I might have a try later, unless somebody cleverer than me does it first!
  • Technomancer
    Technomancer     24th Aug 2015
    When one of the bots reaches a set destination, it gets DRAY'ed to a holding area, then all the original bots get CRAY-deleted and the 'winning' variant (the first one to the finish) gets DRAY'ed into every corral, allowing the cycle to repeat and new 'mutations' to be tested. Basically it's a physical (well, virtual-physical) model of a genetic algorithm, where the most successful 'species' is used as the base for the next set of experiments.
  • Technomancer
    Technomancer     24th Aug 2015
    You need something MUCH more sophisticated than just WARP and electronic components. Something like: start with one working PSTN robot, copied several times into separate 'corrals'. Add some mechanism which can make SMALL random changes to each copy (maybe a randomly-altered DRAY setup).
  • atomic2385
    atomic2385     24th Aug 2015
    S.F.P.I-Search For Powder toy Intelligence
  • atomic2385
    atomic2385     24th Aug 2015
    this is slightly different to this, but look at it and see what you think ID:1844400
  • perogiepro
    perogiepro     24th Aug 2015
    and ill try the converter idea @Guillian
  • perogiepro
    perogiepro     24th Aug 2015
    can someone with whos good at electronics make the outputs never output at the same time. then publish in a save so i can add it here then you can delete your save
  • Guillian
    Guillian     24th Aug 2015
    maybe pscn + pstn + warp + conv
  • dealien
    dealien     24th Aug 2015
    The problem seems to be that it often tries to move in more than one way at the same time, leaving the extended bits behind.
  • Kike200
    Kike200     24th Aug 2015
    ID:1843013 you can try with mine... maybe one of them works