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Evolvable AI: are we on the brink of the next major evolutionary transition?

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Evolvable AI: are we on the brink of the next major evolutionary transition?Alejandro Quintanar/Pexels

What happens when natural selection, the most powerful process driving change in the living world, shapes artificial intelligence (AI), perhaps the most potent technology humanity has invented to date?

We might be about to find out.

According to a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we...

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