I realized while responding to some comments that I completely forgot to mention some exciting news!  Last month, I was fortunate enough to have an article featured on the Qualcomm Spark website, “Can We Grow Artificial Intelligence?”   It explores some of the capabilities we currently have of emulating DNA and biological growth, and incorporating these abilities into our normal programming tools to develop all sorts of AI.  I had a lot of fun writing it, as well as reading the other articles featured on the site.  So many exciting technologies on the horizon (or already here!)