Back around 2000-2005, there were some very nice tutorials on a site (KurzweilAI.Net). It was a Flash site with a picture of a head. I can’t find any of the old content anywhere, just wondering if anyone remembers it or knows where to find a copy. Archive.org is not helping. Here are some of the tutorials I remember. I followed along and programmed them myself (but lost all of that code over the years, sadly):
- Genetic algorithms intro, solve problems like ###=# where an “individual” might be “1+2-3=9” and multiple individuals would cross/mutate depending on how correct they were.
- Basic neural network implementation. How to define a neuron, how to connect them in layers, how to choose activation functional and weights. Maybe there was an example of doing XOR.
- Fun project that combined the two. You made a game board that had bits of food and maybe poison on it and had a bunch of tiny tank-creatures that each had a neural network. They took inputs like distance/angle from nearest food and had outputs for left/right tread speed. Then you saw how much food each one got and ran a genetic algorithm on the weight and maybe topologies of their neural networks. They started out mostly all spinning around but after many generations were able to steer toward the food. Anyway, my kid is interested in AI and I wish I could show these to him. I feel like it teaches more and is more interesting than just learning how to interface with an LLM. submitted by /u/JaguarMammoth6231
Originally posted by u/JaguarMammoth6231 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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