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Have any of your simulated evolution agents become as intelligent as, say, slime mould? If not, then I'm not sure the claim is meaningful (though, for what it's
by simiones 4y ago
Have any of your simulated evolution agents become as intelligent as, say, slime mould? If not, then I'm not sure the claim is meaningful (though, for what it's worth, I do agree with the gist of your argument).
- ben_w 4y agoFrom what I've heard, evolution is itself smarter than slime mould. Also, while natural evolution is limited to about 30 minute minimum reproduction time for biology, simulated evolution is however fast you can calculate a fitness function, which is probably in the order of microseconds to nanoseconds for the sort of task you'd test slime mould against. I was using simulated evolution to directly reach an answer rather than caring about the agent (my fitness function was not agent intelligence); however, to go down the direction you're after here, back in my first job, one of my coworkers used simulated evolution to make agents in a video game, and I was never able to beat those agents in that game even on easy mode.