Friday, August 14, 2015

Exterminate most robots, and an unstoppable breed will emerge


To create a super race of robots, we need to exterminate existing models en masse. This is the macabre lesson being shared in a PLOS One paper published this week by computer scientists at  The University of Texas at Austin, who have tested their mass extinction theory. At least in theory. 

In their paper, Risto Miikkulainen and Joel Lehman concede that extinction is generally considered a bit of a downer -- or rather, an "upheaval to the evolutionary process". Not so, they argue.

By: Liat Clark,

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