Kinetic Moving Sculptures [Strandbeests]

[Tricen]

Kinda creepy.

[Myst]

that is awesome.

[Deeke]

Holy crapsticks.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j236/kloid/wtf.gif

I've had this .gif floating around my computer for months and months now and it always confused the living bejeezus outta me. I had no fucking clue what was going on.


ONE LESS MYSTERY IN MY LIFE. \(^^)/

[Maguspk]

Reminds me of Ghost in the Shell, to be honest. The "tachikomas" or however you spell it or some episode with this spider tank thing. Something from that show reminds me of it (only seen a few episodes).

Really neat that the mechanism even works so well with heavy things, even more interesting that it doesn't need a motor to drive it and it's functioning on the same principles that a wheel does.

[Kiro]

Time for BG Forums to put together a charity for this guy so he can make a big ol' Pedobear.

Let it loose in Disneyland, oh lawd.

[Maguspk]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm

I've talked to people who've taken classes on the subject (Genetic Algorithms) they are evolving but it's just not conventional evolution as one thinks of it, it's more like applying the rules of evolution to code to allow it to adapt and find it's own solution to a problem.

One of the best examples is a guy (forgot his name) who writes lots of this stuff. He knows nothing about making antennae but he was able to write an algorithm which created antennae and he had them published and patented. Another classic example is the one where he developed an algorithm for a truck backing into a delivery bay. The truck would randomly go all over the place at first but as time went on it began to understand the path which led to the optimal solution.

Also, evolution isn't just things changing on a visual scale, even sexual reproduction is considered evolution considering it's an entirely new set of genes. Mutations which propagate through a species are just what we most often associate with evolution.

Guy's name is John Koza, he's done lots of cool stuff.

[Obev]

Christ, the noises that these things make creep the living hell out of me.

[Kaliden]

Holy crapsticks.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j236/kloid/wtf.gif

I've had this .gif floating around my computer for months and months now and it always confused the living bejeezus outta me. I had no fucking clue what was going on.


ONE LESS MYSTERY IN MY LIFE. \(^^)/

That is terrifying.

[Syntex]

That is terrifying.

Until you realize it weighs about 50 lbs and can knock it over with a gentle push.


Either way they may be "evolving" but they won't make it like real AI as it cant learn from its surrondings by itself but rather what its programmed to handle.

What happens when it hits a will, walks off a cliff? Does it learn? Does it learn why one fell off a cliff? I know no cliffs are remotely nearby but you see my point.

All this is is a big shell that has programmed responses to specific conditions and it writes it down, thats all I see so far.

[Maguspk]

Until you realize it weighs about 50 lbs and can knock it over with a gentle push.


Either way they may be "evolving" but they won't make it like real AI as it cant learn from its surrondings by itself but rather what its programmed to handle.

What happens when it hits a will, walks off a cliff? Does it learn? Does it learn why one fell off a cliff? I know no cliffs are remotely nearby but you see my point.

All this is is a big shell that has programmed responses to specific conditions and it writes it down, thats all I see so far.

It weighs a few orders of magnitude more than 50 lbs actually. They aren't necessarily learning, so the speak, they are just adapting and becoming ideal for the environment in which they live. A human who never deals with fire doesn't know how to deal with fire if he's suddenly introduced to it so your case about cliffs is moot. If all you see if a big shell that seems to be reacting to things then the abstraction was flawless and it's only a testament to the success of his proposal. Also, bear in mind that these are by no means a finished product it's more a proof of concept and a promise that someday he hopes to allow them more advanced paths such as evolving. Right now it's vastly simplified due to obvious limitations in the field of AI which will be gone in about 50 years or less.

[Flattus]

Holy crapsticks.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j236/kloid/wtf.gif

I've had this .gif floating around my computer for months and months now and it always confused the living bejeezus outta me. I had no fucking clue what was going on.


ONE LESS MYSTERY IN MY LIFE. \(^^)/

Don't leave home without your blowtorch!

[Obev]

Right now it's vastly simplified due to obvious limitations in the field of AI which will be gone in about 50 years or less.

Did you watch the presentation video? The things' "brains" are 4'-long plastic tubing and water bottle binary counting devices. That's a fairly obvious limitation in the field of their AI, but I kind of like it because it's devilishly simple and I have a hardon for mechanical alternatives to electronic paradigms.

[Maguspk]

Did you watch the presentation video? The things' "brains" are 4'-long plastic tubing and water bottle binary counting devices. That's a fairly obvious limitation in the field of their AI, but I kind of like it because it's devilishly simple and I have a hardon for mechanical alternatives to electronic paradigms.

Well yeah that was last year at the TED and it was just the "brain" for knowing where it was on the beach based on a binary step counter. The other forms have other various mechanisms more complicated than that, what he showed was a very simple example.