{"id":20691,"date":"2016-01-12T17:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T01:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/why-evolution-may-be-intelligent-based-on-deep-learning"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:16:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:16:06","slug":"why-evolution-may-be-intelligent-based-on-deep-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/why-evolution-may-be-intelligent-based-on-deep-learning","title":{"rendered":"Why evolution may be intelligent, based on deep learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-evolution-may-be-intelligent-based-on-deep-learning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Makes sense.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Moth Orchid flower (credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/Imgur.com)\">Imgur.com)<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>A computer scientist and biologist propose to unify the theory of evolution with learning theories to explain the \u201camazing, apparently intelligent designs that evolution produces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The scientists \u2014 University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecs.soton.ac.uk\/people\/raw\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Watson <\/a>* and E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University (Budapest) professor of biology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parmenides-foundation.org\/people\/eoers-szathmary\/\" target=\"_blank\">E\u00f6rs Szathm\u00e1ry <\/a>* \u2014 say they\u2019ve found that it\u2019s possible for evolution to exhibit some of the same intelligent behaviors as learning systems \u2014 including neural networks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/why-evolution-may-be-intelligent-based-on-deep-learning\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Makes sense. Moth Orchid flower (credit: Imgur.com) A computer scientist and biologist propose to unify the theory of evolution with learning theories to explain the \u201camazing, apparently intelligent designs that evolution produces.\u201d The scientists \u2014 University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science professor Richard Watson * and E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University (Budapest) professor of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1523,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-computing","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20691","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68861,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20691\/revisions\/68861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}