Drown Forest Fires in Sound
Drown Forest Fires in Sound
Drown Forest Fires in Sound
• Cut off a flatworm’s head, and it’ll grow a new one. Cut it in half, and you’ll have two
new worms. Fire some radiation at it, and it’ll repair itself. Scientists have wanted to
work out the mechanisms involved in this process some time. Enter an AI coded
at Tufts University. By analysing and simulating countless scenarios, the computer was
able to solve the mystery of the flatworm’s regeneration in just 42 hours. In the end it
produced a model of how the flatworm’s genes allow it to regenerate. the machine in
this experiment was able to create a new, abstract theory independently – a huge step
towards the development of a conscious computer, and potentially a landmark step in
the way we carry out research.