mrjt Messages: 705 Registered: March 2007 Location: London
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Very interesting. I guess most programmers have wondered about the possibility of this at some point, I know I have.
The main problem that occurred to me was creating a complex enough environment to make sensory input useful to the algorithm, which is the problem I think you've encountered. Additionally the AI may need a matching complexity in it's interactions (or influence) with it's environment.
After all, in the natural world you have to get all the way up to very complex multi-celled organisms before you even get light sensitive skin patches.