# Artificial Intelligence Is Evolving All By Itself

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**Tags:** tools, technology, ai\
**Created:** [April 14, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/artificial-intelligence-is-evolving-all-by-itself/79748 "2020-04-14T15:00:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aina](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/aina/32/167469_2.png) [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/artificial-intelligence-is-evolving-all-by-itself/79748/1 "2020-04-14T15:00:45Z")

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[sciencehabit](https://science.slashdot.org/~sciencehabit) shares a report from Science Magazine: _Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving – literally. Researchers have created software that borrows concepts from Darwinian evolution, including “survival of the fittest,” to build AI programs that improve generation after generation without human input. The program replicated decades of AI research in a matter of days, and its designers think that one day, it could discover new approaches to AI. The program discovers algorithms using a loose approximation of evolution. It starts by creating a population of 100 candidate algorithms by randomly combining mathematical operations. It then tests them on a simple task, such as an image recognition problem where it has to decide whether a picture shows a cat or a truck._

 

_In each cycle, the program compares the algorithms’ performance against hand-designed algorithms. Copies of the top performers [are “mutated” by randomly replacing, editing, or deleting some of its code](https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/artificial-intelligence-evolving-all-itself) to create slight variations of the best algorithms. These “children” get added to the population, while older programs get culled. The cycle repeats. In a preprint paper [published last month on arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03384), the researchers show the approach can stumble on a number of classic machine learning techniques, including neural networks._

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**Author:** ![Ashwin4010](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/ashwin4010/32/37978_2.png) [@Ashwin4010](https://onehack.st/u/Ashwin4010)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 4:19pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/artificial-intelligence-is-evolving-all-by-itself/79748/2 "2020-04-14T16:19:52Z")

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Great news but at the same time scary.