[ExI] Polyworld: Using Evolution to Design Artificial Intelligence

[Jef Allbright]

This may be of interest to the group.

<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-112735133685472483>


This presentation is about a potential shortcut to artificial
intelligence by trading mind-design for world-design using artificial
evolution. Evolutionary algorithms are a pump for turning CPU cycles
into brain designs. With exponentially increasing CPU cycles while our
understanding of intelligence is almost a flat-line, the evolutionary
route to AI is a centerpiece of most Kurzweilian singularity
scenarios. This talk introduces the Polyworld artificial life
simulator as well as results from our ongoing attempt to evolve
artificial intelligence and further the Singularity.

Polyworld is the brain child of Apple Computer Distinguished Scientist
Larry Yaeger, who remains the primary developer of Polyworld:

http://www.beanblossom.in.us/larryy/P...

Speaker: Virgil Griffith
Virgil Griffith is a first year graduate student in Computation and
Neural Systems at the California Institute of Technology. On weekdays
he studies evolution, computational neuroscience, and artificial life.
He did computer security work until his first year of university when
his work got him sued for sedition and espionage. He then decided that
security was probably not safest field to be in and he turned his life
to science. (less)
Added: November 13, 2007

- Jef