Mike Burr - log

[comp] Can an AI "learn to program"?

What kind of work has been done on "goal seeking" AI that has as its goal, for example, to print the string "Hello World
" to a file descriptor.

Its entire world exists of a directory, some knowledge about a programming language, and the ability to write and compile code and test for "is this nearer the goal?"

...not a new idea I am sure.