Epigrams On Programming / quote 23 of 28
Optimization
Optimization hinders evolution.
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A quick trick instead of the truth
more polarization the better. In the environment in which they evolved, this trick was a useful guide to behavior and allowed them to avoid constructing a…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #perception #evolution #truth #behavior
AI and the Lamarckian evolution of our species
By engineering our own offspring, many have proposed that Artificial Intelligence can lead to the Lamarckian evolution of our species. In contrast to Darwin’s…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #evolution #artificial-intelligence #future #humanity
Big brains, narrow hips and the birth of parenting
But why does it take so much time and effort? Blame our big, fat, gold-plated, nothing-else-like-it brains. We evolved to have larger brains with higher IQs…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina) #evolution #brain #babies #parents #birth
Bottom-up versus top-down AI design
Given the goal of building an intelligent agent, the methodology frequently adopted by Al is to build from the top downwards. That is, higher-level functions…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #robotics #design #artificial-intelligence #evolution
Brooks: get the basics right first
The MIT roboticist Rodney Brooks takes the evolutionary basics as evidence that “hard” tasks like reasoning, planning and language might turn out to be easier…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) #evolution #robotics #reasoning #artificial-intelligence
Cambrian explosion
About half a billion years ago, life on earth experienced a short period of very rapid diversification called the "Cambrian Explosion." Many theories have…