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“Life and intelligence are emergent phenomena so we came to the conclusion that your approach better should be | “Life and intelligence are emergent phenomena so we came to the conclusion that your approach better should be bottom-up: Studying the smallest units first, the behavior of atoms and molecules and later DNA and entire cells. Eventually, entire organisms. Bacteria, insects, humans.” | ||
“Our interdisciplinary team of theoretical biologists and computer scientists had worked on Avatara for more than a decade already to finally fulfill the promises of AI research that had been made in the past. We really don’t want to see another AI winter.” | “Our interdisciplinary team of theoretical biologists and computer scientists had worked on Avatara for more than a decade already to finally fulfill the promises of AI research that had been made in the past. We really don’t want to see another AI winter.” | ||
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“The teams took their time to review old textbook knowledge and corrected it where necessary. We simply didn’t wanted to fail just because of inaccurate basics.” | “The teams took their time to review old textbook knowledge and corrected it where necessary. We simply didn’t wanted to fail just because of inaccurate basics.” | ||
“You maybe remember | “You maybe remember the hype from the human genome project. [https://youtu.be/Y_8XRkb-wbY?t=300 It was said that the one reference genome will revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of most, if not all, human diseases. Doctors will cure diseases like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes and cancer.]” | ||
“As we know today, that was a foolish thought for various reasons. Even if you have the whole sequenced genome you are still missing more than 50 percent of the raw information to understand the more complex diseases – the other half being the epigenetic information layers like DNA | “As we know today, that was a foolish thought for various reasons. Even if you have the whole sequenced genome you are still missing more than 50 percent of the raw information to understand the more complex diseases – the other half being the epigenetic information layers like DNA methylation and histone modifications.” | ||
“On top of that you have to watch out for dynamic factors like | “On top of that you have to watch out for dynamic factors like microbiome and virome – all the other cells inside the human body that are part of him but don’t derive from his own genetic codes.” | ||
“When all data of a level was reviewed we increased the abstraction of our models. Superficially, you may think of them as onions with their layers or hollow Matroschka puppets made of wood. The more layers our model had the more complete and live-like is got.” | “When all data of a level was reviewed we increased the abstraction of our models. Superficially, you may think of them as onions with their layers or hollow Matroschka puppets made of wood. The more layers our model had the more complete and live-like is got.” | ||
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“So, to cut a long story short, we simulated most simple lifeforms and their environment first, then increased cell count and complexity again for higher cognitive abilities.” | “So, to cut a long story short, we simulated most simple lifeforms and their environment first, then increased cell count and complexity again for higher cognitive abilities.” | ||
“Single cell sims were mostly used to study metabolisms, gene networks and signaling pathways. On level of colonies we included emergent phenomena like quorum sensing – chemical communication among bacteria. Next we needed to incorporate the | “Single cell sims were mostly used to study metabolisms, gene networks and signaling pathways. On level of colonies we included emergent phenomena like quorum sensing – chemical communication among bacteria. Next we needed to incorporate the microbiome and virome before accurately simulate the lifecycle of whole populations of microbes. For our biologist this was interesting for studying the effects of transposomes, immune systems like CRISPR CAS and symbiotic relationships.” | ||
“I | “I had to wait three more years before further complexity could be added. We were so close to simulate organism on level of an animals and create AIs on their level.” | ||
“Eventually Avatara reached the mental capacities of a human child. Naturally, it had become more than a simulation of living cells. By now it had experienced its very own evolution insilico.” | “Eventually Avatara reached the mental capacities of a human child. Naturally, it had become more than a simulation of living cells. By now it had experienced its very own evolution insilico.” | ||
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“Some say a truly intelligent machine will be human’s last invention. I hope that’s not the case and that we will rather establish a symbiosis with them.”--> | “Some say a truly intelligent machine will be human’s last invention. I hope that’s not the case and that we will rather establish a symbiosis with them.”--> | ||
“I wish I could have given you a shorter explanation | “I wish I could have given you a shorter explanation of our project but you cannot simply create an [[wikipedia:Strong_AI|strong AI]] by ignoring 3.5 billion years of evolution." | ||
Kimura smirked: “It’s okay. I know two other guys with a similar scope. You should meet them. I think you all will make a great gang of crackheads.” | Kimura smirked: “It’s okay. I know two other guys with a similar scope. You should meet them. I think you all will make a great gang of crackheads.” | ||
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Pensatore: “Excuse me?” | Pensatore: “Excuse me?” | ||
Kimura hit Pensatore on the shoulder: "Oh come on, show me your mad scientist cave where | Kimura hit Pensatore on the shoulder: "Oh come on, why don't you show me your mad scientist cave where all my billions are transformed into new technologies. It's behind that door, right? I can already scent the innovations behind it." | ||
Pensatore was perplexed. How did he know? What was up with that attitude? Was it because that man was so insanely rich? | Pensatore was perplexed. How did he know? What was up with that attitude? Was it because that man was so insanely rich? | ||
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[Kimura regularly uses Kumo's ''black money pools'' for his own purposes. Kumo tries to keep money for himself, not passing it to the Controllers. But the Controllers and Kimura know of his actions and make him pay anyway. Kimura is in charged of the Network's espionage and counter-espionage so he takes the freedom to inflict disciplinary actions against such subbosses. | [Kimura regularly uses Kumo's ''black money pools'' for his own purposes. Kumo tries to keep money for himself, not passing it to the Controllers. But the Controllers and Kimura know of his actions and make him pay anyway. Kimura is in charged of the Network's espionage and counter-espionage so he takes the freedom to inflict disciplinary actions against such subbosses. | ||
Kimura created a dummy corporation to get in contact with Pensatore and the Avatara project. He made the WCG oversight believe that he was a new financial partner in research matters. To the outside world his setup was just a branch of the globally operating heavy machines specialist BGI which produced military equipment for the WCG.] | Kimura created a dummy corporation to get in contact with Pensatore and the Avatara project. He made the WCG oversight believe that he was a new financial partner in research matters. To the outside world his setup was just a branch of the globally operating heavy machines specialist BGI which produced military equipment for the WCG. Not only would Kimura accelerate his own project but also the research of WCG which he would steal later again for the Network and Syndicate. So this all, though having an ironic dimension, was a win-win for both.] | ||
[Pensatore shows Avatara to the VIP. The robot is in a hall to test his spatial awareness and locomotion. Kimura ask the robot for a sparring match. The | [Pensatore shows Avatara to the VIP. The robot is in a hall to test his spatial awareness and locomotion. Kimura ask the robot for a sparring match. The outside world is a dangerous place and a highly valuable piece of self-aware tech better knows to defend himself. Pensatore thinks that his guest looks for military application since the source of money is BGI. Kimura is impressed how fast the AI can adapt to his attacks and confirms that Avatara has great potential. This thought is also mirrored by the later SLD project.] | ||
[Kimura invites Pensatore to his company to give them | [Kimura invites Pensatore to his company to give them advice for [[wikipedia:Supercomputer_architecture#Massive_distributed_parallelism|HPC architecture]]. Eventually Kimura decides to force Pensatore to permanently participate on the Daodan research.] | ||
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