Darwin among the
machines by George Dyson. This wasn't that good
after all. The historical narrative seemed accurate, and was
interesting. However, the conclusions Dyson was drawing about
the nature of AI, evolution and all that sort of thing, were
waffly (i.e., lacked precision, making it impossible to tell
what, if anything he meant), and occasionally just bizarre.
Java a meta-language? Object oriented programming languages
somehow analogous to the random processes of natural
selection? Yeah, right.
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