{"id":128797,"date":"2021-10-09T19:24:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T02:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/artificial-intelligence-is-evolving-all-by-itself"},"modified":"2021-10-09T19:24:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T02:24:30","slug":"artificial-intelligence-is-evolving-all-by-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/artificial-intelligence-is-evolving-all-by-itself","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence is evolving all by itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-is-evolving-all-by-itself2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2020<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving\u2014literally. Researchers have created software that borrows concepts from Darwinian evolution, including \u201csurvival of the fittest,\u201d to build AI programs that improve generation after generation without human input. The program replicated decades of AI research in a matter of days, and its designers think that one day, it could discover new approaches to AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile most people were taking baby steps, they took a giant leap into the unknown,\u201d says Risto Miikkulainen, a computer scientist at the University of Texas, Austin, who was not involved with the work. \u201cThis is one of those papers that could launch a lot of future research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Building an AI algorithm takes time. Take neural networks, a common type of machine learning used for translating languages and driving cars. These networks loosely mimic the structure of the brain and learn from training data by altering the strength of connections between artificial neurons. Smaller subcircuits of neurons carry out specific tasks\u2014for instance spotting road signs\u2014and researchers can spend months working out how to connect them so they work together seamlessly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2020 Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving\u2014literally. Researchers have created software that borrows concepts from Darwinian evolution, including \u201csurvival of the fittest,\u201d to build AI programs that improve generation after generation without human input. The program replicated decades of AI research in a matter of days, and its designers think that one day, it could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}