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The mind wrote the program and built the computer. Harnessing the computing power designed by humans is an exploitation of that design. The search space in this program was limited to achieve a specified purpose.Where is the mind that “designed” the x-band antenna used by the Space Technology 5 mission? The researchers first tried to limit it to a slightly conventional design using a specified number of branches, as used in all human-designed x-band antennas of similar capabilities. They then removed all limitations other than raw capability, and the computers produced a radically new design using only one branch that was far lighter than anything that had been designed by humans.
Where is the mind that produced the tone discriminator of Dr. Adrian Thompson’s thesis? Given a completely random group of programmable gate arrays and a simple specified capability, the computers again produced something that would have been impossible for a human designer. The final design not only included far fewer logic gates than was thought possible, but it actually used physical properties intrinsic to the chips used for the experiment that were so specific that the design would not work even on an identical chip from the same manufacturer - something that a human designer would never be able to do.
In both cases, the algorithms were given nothing more than a final capability and a random group of initial states. There was no indication of what the final product would look like at all other than it would perform the specified function. In Dr. Thompson’s case, the “final” design was reached after only a few thousand generations. In the case of NASA’s new antennas, the results were reached after less than two hundred generations. Read the papers, and explain where the information of the final design - something unspecified in the initial parameters - came from.