Interesting hardware and computer intellect

The recent discussion on interesting system architectures triggered a memory I have of a documentary on TV somewhere (Discovery? TechTV? PBS?) on evolvable hardware. There was some intrigue in the episode, on investors accusing researchers of bad faith, or lying, or a scam. Hardware was built, I'm pretty sure it was the CAM-Brain, and it was used quite a bit before the company that built it went under (It may have been Genobyte along with ATR, but I remember the company being based out of England) Anyways, this definitely counts as "interesting" hardware. An FPGA based computer that optimizes it's own logic based on a given problem. The CAM-Brain was built, as was an FPGA engine built by HP, and another in Japan somewhere. Here are some links if anyone is interested: The CAM-Brain: http://trappist.elis.ugent.be/~heeckhau/CBM/ Hugo de Garis has an interesting website discussing weather we should build super-brains (Artliects) or not: http://www.iss.whu.edu.cn/degaris/ Adrian Thompson, one of the bigwigs in evolvable hardware design: http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/adrianth/ade.html