There is a website called sodarace where people and AI algorithms compete at designing virtual 2-D robots that crawl over a 2-D landscape. Aparantly, the last match went to the humans:
Computer Science students at the university fed a basic wheel design into an AI program to breed the best racer over a hilly course while a team in Austria gave AI a free hand in developing a flat-ground racer, which resulted in weird computer-generated stick-insect type creatures.But it was a machine developed using trial and error in Canada that struck the decisive blow for humans. Round one of the competition was watched by 150,000 online spectators. Round two will be launched in December.
This is a fairly interesting site to play with.
Posted by elkaim at December 2, 2003 4:26 PM