I can also attest to the effectiveness of AVG. I haven't tried the others, mainly because of that fact. My experience includes a period of time when I used Kazaa heavily (a practice that I would never recommend to anyone). It did catch viruses and trojans regularly, and my computer has never had damage from virus infection. I've also supplemented that at times with the free online Trend Micro HouseCall scanner, but it never caught anything that AVG didn't.
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Well, based on some of the moral/ethical difficulties we see are being discussed here, this might not be a bad thing. I mean, it takes that part of the problem out of the equation.
Really, though, how is this different from men just directly controlling tanks and jets to rain shells down on people?
A quick web search yield this link to an abstract of an article entitled "The Natural Way To Evolve Hardware (1996)" by Adrian Thompson, Inman Harvey, and Philip Husbands. Links to the article in various formats are found in the upper right corner of that page.
This page has links to several more related articles about evolutionary robotics and circuitry.
In a way, though, this is a form of AI, though perhaps not in the form we're used to. The fact that the chips can test configurations, and pick and choose which ones to keep may in fact be brute force, but it's kind of like brainstorming, in a way. You can't get good ideas without having to plow through some bad ones. And there would be some really fascinating implications and possibilities if the chip could be taught to analyze it's own approaches at evolving itself. Pretty deep stuff.
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I can also attest to the effectiveness of AVG. I haven't tried the others, mainly because of that fact. My experience includes a period of time when I used Kazaa heavily (a practice that I would never recommend to anyone). It did catch viruses and trojans regularly, and my computer has never had damage from virus infection. I've also supplemented that at times with the free online Trend Micro HouseCall scanner, but it never caught anything that AVG didn't.
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Uh...huh huh...he said "wood"...
Well, based on some of the moral/ethical difficulties we see are being discussed here, this might not be a bad thing. I mean, it takes that part of the problem out of the equation. Really, though, how is this different from men just directly controlling tanks and jets to rain shells down on people?
A quick web search yield this link to an abstract of an article entitled "The Natural Way To Evolve Hardware (1996)" by Adrian Thompson, Inman Harvey, and Philip Husbands. Links to the article in various formats are found in the upper right corner of that page. This page has links to several more related articles about evolutionary robotics and circuitry.
OK, now that is just scary...
In a way, though, this is a form of AI, though perhaps not in the form we're used to. The fact that the chips can test configurations, and pick and choose which ones to keep may in fact be brute force, but it's kind of like brainstorming, in a way. You can't get good ideas without having to plow through some bad ones. And there would be some really fascinating implications and possibilities if the chip could be taught to analyze it's own approaches at evolving itself. Pretty deep stuff.