The Conway's game of life example isn't so impressive. The network isn't really reverse engineering rules, it's being trained on data that is equivalent to the

The Conway's game of life example isn't so impressive. The network isn't really reverse engineering rules, it's being trained on data that is equivalent to the rules. It's sort of like teaching + by giving it 400 data points triplets (a,b,c) with 1 <= a,b <= 20 and c = a + b.