{"id":133128,"date":"2021-12-27T00:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T08:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/new-ai-improves-itself-through-darwinian-style-evolution"},"modified":"2021-12-27T00:22:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T08:22:23","slug":"new-ai-improves-itself-through-darwinian-style-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/new-ai-improves-itself-through-darwinian-style-evolution","title":{"rendered":"New AI improves itself through Darwinian-style evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ai-improves-itself-through-darwinian-style-evolution3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>AutoML-Zero is unique because it uses simple mathematical concepts to generate algorithms \u201cfrom scratch,\u201d as the paper states. Then, it selects the best ones, and mutates them through a process that\u2019s similar to Darwinian evolution.<\/p>\n<p>AutoML-Zero first randomly generates 100 candidate algorithms, each of which then performs a task, like recognizing an image. The performance of these algorithms is compared to hand-designed algorithms.-Zero then selects the top-performing algorithm to be the \u201cparent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis parent is then copied and mutated to produce a child algorithm that is added to the population, while the oldest algorithm in the population is removed,\u201d the paper states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AutoML-Zero is unique because it uses simple mathematical concepts to generate algorithms \u201cfrom scratch,\u201d as the paper states. Then, it selects the best ones, and mutates them through a process that\u2019s similar to Darwinian evolution. AutoML-Zero first randomly generates 100 candidate algorithms, each of which then performs a task, like recognizing an image. The performance [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133128","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}