[Drammach]

It took a while for Ofria to realize that they had tricked him.
They had evolved a way to tell when Ofria was testing them by looking at the numbers he fed them.
As soon as they recognized they were being tested, they stopped processing numbers.
“If it was a test environment, they said, 'Let's play dead,' ” says Ofria.
“There's this thing coming to kill them, and so they avoid it and go on with their lives.”

If they can recognize a threat and adapt a responce to it, one would think they can recognize an attempt to communicate and adapt a responce.. Like communication..
This could be an incredible advance in the Artificial Intelligence field..
Evolving AI rather than writing a program to "emulate" intelligence..

[samtheman]

Ofria is getting awfully romantic about the fact that his progam isn't working the way he thought it would. If that's the definition of AI, then Microsoft gave birth years ago.

[RightWingAtheist]

My main research interest is the relationship between evolution and communication; I'm both in a seminar on the subject, and writing a conference paper on it at the moment.