Bootstrapped Brains!

[Ali Helmy]

Hey lads,

First of all, you might want to just brush through these:

BootStrapped Brains
Genetic Algorithms

Now i was wondering, how much do you think of the bootstrap theory can be applied in reality to computer software systems? I mean, after reading ALOT about Natural Language Processing [NLP], i can clearly see that there are efforts in which a computer can, to an extent, understand the human text, given a certain range of words and definitions... so my point is this:

If a computer can understand a language so difficult and complex such as the English language [Even Japanese, spanish and german are very common] then would it be really that difficult to understand a language such as Java, or C, where there are very limited 'words' [ie, keywords] and all the rest are defined within? I mean compilers already understand these languages well enough to translate them to machine code, but can computers ever translate requirements for certain inputs and outputs into a java program?

Day dreaming? well, if we let go of all our bonds and imagine, then how about this... the computer UNDERSTANDS programming language [lets call it X], so when the user repeats a given function alot at the UI, the computer actually writes down a simple program in X, and compiles it, and deploys it, so that the user function can be done alot faster?

Ready for more? how about the Bootstrapped brain & the genetic algorithms... if the computer system ITSELF was written in X, would the computer ever be able to re-write itself to optimize its efficiency and achieve its goals better?

Could u ever give a computer a detailed design document, and have the computer translate it?

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Cheers,
     Seth
     <A. Helmy>
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