Answer the Following Turing Machine Problem: We were discussing artificial intel
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Answer the Following Turing Machine Problem:
We were discussing artificial intelligence, perhaps what we should be thinking about is artificial biology. In the broadest terms life has large over-arching themes. 1) Survival 2) Reproduction and in some sense 3) improvement of self in response to environmental pressures. Life, almost by definition, is the solution to these problems. The problem with software and machines is that we (as living beings) have to define in very specific terms what the goals are. Do you think that it is possible to generate a Universal Turing Machine that instead of a Turing Machine definition, it is challenged to find solutions to those three biological imperatives?
a. If not, why not?
b. If yes i. Are there other broad biological imperatives that I have not considered? ii. And what might the biological pressures be in this setting? iii. How might the solutions to the imperatives be generated (sought)?
c. Finally, is this an example of AI? Or is it something completely different? Justify your answer.
Explanation / Answer
a) Yes, we can design a Universal Turing Machine which can find solutions to those three biological imperatives (1) Survival 2) Reproduction and in some sense 3) improvement of self in response to environmental pressures) as a universal Turing machine (UTM) is a Turing machine that can simulate an arbitrary Turing machine on any given input (say we have 3 types of input in our case). The universal machine essentially achieves this by reading both the description of the machine to be simulated as well as the input there of from its own tape.
b) Are there other broad biological imperatives that I have not considered:-
Diseases and Cure - So in this case given any list of disease in the input tape of TM, it will show the transitions of the various treatments possible and will ultimately HALT when the cure is found (medicine is ready)
Human part Transplantations - In this the TM will have a list of human parts that can be transplanted from another human along with positions defined for each transplant (Say the TM movement are defined by positions that are declared) eg:- Heat -> Center of Body, Legs -> Bottom part of body, etc
DNA Matching patterns in Human - Take as input the DNA sequence on the input tape and produce another DNA Sequence as determined by the Transition function. In this way both DNA can be compared.
c) Finally, is this an example of AI? Or is it something completely different? Justify your answer
This is Biological AI as we are implementing biological transformations using AI rules. Hence, I would prefer calling it as Biological AI.
Please let me know in case of any clarifications required. Thanks!