>> Well, suppose I program a whole bunch of bots, each with an individual
>> neural network to control it, and them them "survive" by... not getting
>> shot by its competetors? :-D
>>
>> [Yes, I know, it's completely infeasible in reality. But it's a neat
>> idea...]
> 
> Not only is it feasible, if done right it can be quite practical.

I rather suspect that to get any "interesting" behaviour, you'd need an 
infeasibly large neural net. Also, to train them all by a genetic 
algorithm, you'd need to start with a hell of a lot of them. I suspect 
the computer power required would be prohibitive.

Let us not even go into the difficulty of designing a neural network in 
such a way that it can accept temporal sensor data and generate motor 
commands...

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