Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

While most of the artificial intelligent design of websites has come in the form of ‘Mechanical Turks’ better known as Web 2.0. Here is someone using an evolution algorithm to design a website.

Matthew Hockenberry and Ernesto Arroyo of Creative Synthesis, a non-profit organisation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have created evolutionary software that alters colours, fonts and hyperlinks of pages in response to what seems to grab the attention of the people who click on the site. See Creative Synthesis for more. [ read more Web pages come alive and start breeding]

They defined the design of a webpage as a search problem. Then they broke html and css elements up into the smallest possible items. Those items are the dna, the webpage is the environment.

The best design attracts the most and longest attention. Here is the end result and some of the designs along the way AAAI.jpg

Human Tended Gardens of Evolutionary Design