Artificial Natural Selection & Terraform Planets

When Earth is not enough

Terraforming independent evolving machines, that’s what Team Kryha is building. Outfitted with a collective mind and ever evolving digital DNA, makes those machines the perfect companions for us simple humans to prepare planets for our arrival.

Before we dive into planets, what’s the problem Kryha wants to solve? “We face a lot of problems, from hunger and poverty to global warming” says Haischel Dabian. “Fixing those problems is hard, as they are ownerless, so we need ownerless solutions, solutions which can benefit the commons.”

An important aspect of Kryha’s work is to develop machines which can learn for themselves, which can grow and adapt. Machines which need to evolve.

“We re building a system for a global machine infrastructure”, says Haischel. “When we started this, we build Grex where we researched swarm robotics. We combined local knowledge gathered by the individual agents in the network. This enabled them to work autonomously, without human interaction.”

if we want to prosper, we have to become interplanetary species

Haischel: “This year we take it a step further, this year we’re building Horizon. This year we focus on machine evolution. like natural selection or machine selection. The goal is to have these machines optimize themselves or they die and go extinct.”

Sitting on the floor, right in front of the team’s table, Haischel explains that the hackathon is important to create the infrastructure for the machines and to solve the problems which are defined by the United Nations, like enhancing the lives of human beings and then apply this system to Mars before colonizing the planet.

The question pops up why we want to colonize Mars? “We think it is a safe haven. Staying home is not helping us, if we want to prosper, we have to become interplanetary species.”

“But it will take a while”, Haischel continutes, “terraforming mars will take about 300 years, one of the jedi’s said.”

Even though all this will take a while, the team is working hard to finish the task ahead at the Odyssey Hackathon in Groningen. With some difficulty we get a quick comment on the techniques in the background from developer Dan Acristinii: “We’re using kubernetes and ethereum. All of the kubernetes are aware of each other. We are extending the kubernetes-api with ethereum.”

Is that a first Dan? “Yes, I believe we are the first to do that.”

Okay, thank you!