"It's not the Turing test just yet, but in one more domain, AI is becoming increasingly competitive with humans. This time around, it's in interplanetary trajectory optimization. From the European Space Agency comes the news that researchers from its Advanced Concepts Team have recently won the Gold 'Humies' award for their use of Evolutionary Algorithms to design a spacecraft's trajectory for exploring the Galilean moons of Jupiter (Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto). The problem addressed in the awarded article (PDF) was put forward by NASA/JPL in the latest edition of the Global Trajectory Optimization Competition. The team from ESA was able to automatically evolve a solution that outperforms all the entries submitted to the competition by human experts from across the world. Interestingly, as noted in the presentation to the award's jury (PDF), the team conducted their work on top of open-source tools (PaGMO / PyGMO and PyKEP)."
3More
Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels - Slashdot - 4 views
1More
New Enzyme Rewrites the Genome - 2 views
Synthetic XNA molecules can evolve and store genetic information, just like DNA | Not E... - 0 views
5More
Genetic mugshot recreates faces from nothing but DNA - 3 views
2More
New Method Confirms Humans and Neandertals Interbred - 0 views
2More
Partial reversal of aging achieved in mice | Harvard Gazette - 0 views
3More
Comeback for Genetic Algorithms...Deep Neuroevolution! - 5 views
1More