Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 62 of 68

Genghis walks with fifty-one tiny programs

Genghis has no central control. Nowhere in his construction is there a description of how to walk. “The software for Genghis was not organized as a single program but rather as fifty-one little tiny parallel programs.”

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