Re: SITE: Coding a Transhuman AI 2.0a

From: hal@finney.org
Date: Mon May 22 2000 - 17:57:30 MDT


> > I'm not sure how I'd answer this. Eventually, Eliezer intends it to
> > be as good as a modern programmer at writing code to specifications;
> > he expects that it would soon go beyond that point, writing code that
> > we can't understand today.
>
> Writing code we can't understand today? Easy, evolutionary algorithms
> already to that very nicely.

Are you kidding? Half the people in the industry can write code nobody
can understand... Just take a look at any Perl script (he says, ducking
for cover).

Hal



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