From an interview with World Radio:
It’s actually the computer programmer, which is supplying that creativity.
So that’s where any creativity comes from—any smarter program. Somehow I don’t believe that it will happen.
I also know that people who looked at writing smarter programs using genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming have abandoned their search in large because they’ve tried a bunch of different things and nothing seems to work. They can’t get smarter programs that way.
But I also know people that are very excited about trying other ways. I don’t think they’re going to work, though.
“Can we write creative computer programs?” at Mind Matters News
It seems that the programmer would have to make the computer smarter than he is, which means smarter than itself. That’s a challenge.
Computer engineer Robert J. Marks is one of the authors of Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics. He will also be addressing these topics at the COSM technology summit, October 23–25, 2019, in Bellevue, Washington.
See also: Some of Marks’s takes on recent AI news items:
Random thoughts on recent AI headlines: Google gives away “free” cookies… Also, why AI can’t predict the stock market or deal with windblown plastic bags
Random thoughts on recent AI headlines (March 18, 2019): There is usually a story under those layers of hype but not always the one you thought
and
Top Ten AI hypes of 2018: More help, less hype, please!
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Well, you know, KF, I was only musing this morning : given the very nature of randomness, how could we have failed to see that the universe in all its wonderful variety and majesty was just as it should have been.
I’m sure that to every self-respecting atheist, it is all too obvious that randomness has a built-in ‘fine-tuning’ faculty’, and it could not have created our universe, from the simplest virus to the trillions of galaxies, from sunsets to humming-birds, other than it is !
Don’t you all feel foolish, now, how we all missed the obvious – and that, staring at us in plain sight – except the oh so wily A/Mats ! Just don’t try and teach it to a child. It is far too sophisticated for it to be able to grasp.
They would find it as difficult to wrestle with as Henry Ford’s famous concession : ‘You can have your car in whatever colour you choose – as long as it’s black…’
Don’t forget they need a hardware platform capable of carrying out their programs…
News, Marks’ money shot remark:
KF
Axel, the forcing superlaws to do such would be extraordinarily fine tuned. KF
“There exists no (computer) model successfully describing undirected Darwinian evolution. Period.”
As to the failure of genetic algorithms and evolutionary programming in particular, here is a bit more detail from another article from Dr. Marks