Inferential programming
In ordinary computer programming, the programmer keeps the program's intended results in mind and painstakingly constructs a computer program to achieve those results. Inferential programming refers to (still mostly hypothetical) techniques and technologies enabling the inverse. Inferential programming would allow the programmer to describe the intended result to the computer using a metaphor such as a fitness function or a test specification and then the computer would construct it's own program to meet the supplied criteria.
Closely related concepts and technologies
- Genetic programming
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
- Artificial life
- Evolution
- Metaprogramming