To begin with, there is nothing more precious in a man than his mind. Many people try to invent the things which were invented before either in ancient scriptures or described in nature or society. The other thing is to catch a right sight of the processes used in the Universe. It is the reason for inventing something new. The progress power stays on fundamentals of rational explanation of some processes or inventions which provoke the emergence of other new and better-performed inventions.
Of course, time is needed to implement the ideas which suit society at the moment. In other words, a new scientific solution of a genius can be appropriate only when the society draws to a head with a little bit mere understanding of the scientific flow at a definite epoch in the development of mankind. It is true when reminding fabulous and genius scientists of all times before and after: Leonardo Da Vinci or Giordano Bruno and other genii who advanced the time when they lived and forecast the way of further elaboration of science.
In the essay by Jonathon Keats “John Koza Has Built an Invention Machine” the author presents a reader with detailed and brief at once information about Koza’s creative work. This man being a high-school student ventured to create something that seems like a personal computer but only by his design. John was inspired with a thought to create the unprecedented independent formation of devices to control several difficult at times processes in engineering and programming.
His so-called invention machine was then named artificial intelligence (AI). It is not surprising that Koza exactly had invented and even patented his “system”. People who have global standpoints or mottos in their life always leave deep traces in the history of human beings. John thought that “the intelligence of a machine is a matter of adaptability as much as accuracy.” (Keats, 1) This statement is vital when somebody wants to prove his ability to invent something new.
The issue gains another coloring when applying to the power of common sense and the depths of the mind and intellectual ability of a man. Koza’s creations granted a lot of additional inspiration to the creator himself. “Yet as impressive as these creations may be, none are half as significant as the machine´s method: Darwinian evolution, the process of natural selection.” (Keats, 1)
Being one of the few who wanted to study programming and computer technologies in his 1950-s Koza felt the importance of such an urge and greatly understood that every invention cannot be done without financial support. John in this case had a grave argument to venture to make something new. A talented man is talented in everything, as a rule. This saying also concerns John Koza who made out the situation of prematureness about inventing and providing new technologies and information technologies in his 1960-s. That was the reason why John continued studying at the University of Michigan. He replied about this affair: “I was interested in computers, so I studied computer science. Why do other people go into medicine or become policemen?” (Keats, 1)
Being a teenager Koza worked part-time “for a supermarket rub-off game manufacturer” (Keats, 1) and made up his mind that this experience may help him to earn money for the subjugation of the future spurs. Their genius of his was embodied in his abiding faith in himself. Here no self-criticism can be applied. It was a man of strong will combined with a highly intellectual background.
Like many successful innovators, Koza combines unusual competence in his work with supreme confidence in himself. Rather than taking the bankruptcy as a sign that rub-off games were dead, he decided that scratch cards were the future of yet another moribund business: state lotteries. (Keats, 1)
His lottery gave him the result of 2.7 million tickets sold in the first week. That was a tremendous success for a beginner in this sphere but not in the sphere of creative thinking. John worked out everything needed for the achievement of this purpose and even calculated supply and demand rates of lottery engagement within masses.
Lottery tax incidence studies have been based on a variety of data including surveys of winners (Borg and Mason 1988; Brinner and Clotfelter 1975; McConkey and Warren 1987; Spiro 1974), surveys of the population (Brinner and Clotfelter 1975; Clotfelter and Cook 1987, 1989; Livernois 1987; Suits 1977a; Vaillancourt and Grignon 1988), lottery sales by zip codes (Clotfelter 1979), sales by city (Jackson 1994), sales by state (Vasche 1985), winners by zip codes (Clotfelter and Cook 1987; Koza 1982), and winners by census tracts (Brinner and Clotfelter 1975; Heavy 1978). (Hansen & Miyazaki, 2000)
He became very rich and perspective and could let anything he wanted at the end of the 1980-s, but a creative innovator who possessed a “money-printing machine” was eager to work and create innovations for mankind and science, in particular. New research projects inspired him as earlier and the computer innovator built GECCO:
In this instance, the machine has created a complex lens system that outperforms a wide-field eyepiece for telescopes and binoculars patented just six years ago by lens designers Noboru Koizumi and Naomi Watanabe-and which does so, moreover, without infringing on the Koizumi-Watanabe patent. (Keats, 2)
Rational proposals made by Koza contributed predominantly individual guidelines which stimulated the growth of science in its versatile nature. It was appreciably due to the sequential inventions supporting the progress flow of John’s “invention the machine.” He never stopped at gained successes: “Jones calls up an optical simulator known as KOJAC. From a prescription (which numerically describes the curvature, thickness, and glass type of lens components), KOJAC predicts how the compound lens will function in the real world.” (Keats, 2)
Is the fact that a statistical analysis for which AI may be appropriate can go along with neural nets. Quantitative data here are rather useful for “the procedures employed in symbolic processors.” (Sims & Brent, 1994) The potential of genetic algorithms still stays uninvestigated for many reasons, one of which is the general vastitude of questions about computing and sciences relevant to it in the age of high technologies.
All in all, it is approved now by scholars in many countries that John Koza like a wise innovator and researcher as well as a pioneer in the field of high technologies and computer modeling particularly. It is not for nothing that Jonathon Keats underlines the role of Koza’s inventions for human beings and science as well by grabbing attention on the following words: “What Koza has done is to automate the creative process.” (Keats, 3)
Works Cited
Bainbridge, William Sims, et al. “Artificial Social Intelligence.” Annual Review of Sociology (1994).
Hansen, Ann, Anthony D. Miyazaki, and David E. Sprott. “The Tax Incidence of Lotteries: Evidence from Five States.” Journal of Consumer Affairs 34.2 (2000).
Kolata, Gina, Cohen, Jesse. “The Best American Science Writing”, HarperCollins,( 2007).
Keats, Jonathon. “John Koza Has Built an Invention Machine”. Web.