The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities
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author = "Joel Lehman and Jeff Clune and Dusan Misevic and
Christoph Adami and Julie Beaulieu and
Peter J. Bentley and Samuel Bernard and Guillaume Beslon and
David M. Bryson and Patryk Chrabaszcz and Nick Cheney and
Antoine Cully and Stephane Doncieux and
Fred C. Dyer and Kai Olav Ellefsen and Robert Feldt and
Stephan Fischer and Stephanie Forrest and Antoine Frenoy and
Christian Gagne and Leni K. Le Goff and
Laura M. Grabowski and Babak Hodjat and Frank Hutter and
Laurent Keller and Carole Knibbe and Peter Krcah and
Richard E. Lenski and Hod Lipson and Robert MacCurdy and
Carlos Maestre and Risto Miikkulainen and Sara Mitri and
David E. Moriarty and Jean-Baptiste Mouret and Anh Nguyen and
Charles Ofria and Marc Parizeau and
David P. Parsons and Robert T. Pennock and William F. Punch and
Thomas S. Ray and Marc Schoenauer and Eric Schulte and
Karl Sims and Kenneth O. Stanley and Francois Taddei and
Danesh Tarapore and Simon Thibault and
Westley Weimer and Richard Watson and Jason Yosinksi",
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title = "The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: {A}
Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary
Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities",
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howpublished = "arXiv",
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year = "2018",
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month = "14 " # nov,
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note = "v3",
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keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
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archiveprefix = "arXiv",
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eprint = "1803.03453",
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timestamp = "Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:46:55 +0200",
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biburl = "
https://dblp.org/rec/bib/journals/corr/abs-1803-03453",
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bibsource = "dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org",
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URL = "
http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453",
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size = "32 pages",
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abstract = "Biological evolution provides a creative fount of
complex and subtle adaptations, often surprising the
scientists who discover them. However, because
evolution is an algorithmic process that transcends the
substrate in which it occurs, evolution's creativity is
not limited to nature. Indeed, many researchers in the
field of digital evolution have observed their evolving
algorithms and organisms subverting their intentions,
exposing unrecognised bugs in their code, producing
unexpected adaptations, or exhibiting outcomes
uncannily convergent with ones in nature. Such stories
routinely reveal creativity by evolution in these
digital worlds, but they rarely fit into the standard
scientific narrative. Instead they are often treated as
mere obstacles to be overcome, rather than results that
warrant study in their own right. The stories
themselves are traded among researchers through oral
tradition, but that mode of information transmission is
inefficient and prone to error and outright loss.
Moreover, the fact that these stories tend to be shared
only among practitioners means that many natural
scientists do not realize how interesting and lifelike
digital organisms are and how natural their evolution
can be. To our knowledge, no collection of such
anecdotes has been published before. This paper is the
crowd-sourced product of researchers in the fields of
artificial life and evolutionary computation who have
provided first-hand accounts of such cases. It thus
serves as a written, fact-checked collection of
scientifically important and even entertaining stories.
In doing so we also present here substantial evidence
that the existence and importance of evolutionary
surprises extends beyond the natural world, and may
indeed be a universal property of all complex evolving
systems.",
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notes = "Also known as \cite{Lehman:etal:2018:Surprising}",
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Genetic Programming entries for
Joel Lehman
Jeff Clune
Dusan Misevic
Christoph Adami
Julie Beaulieu
Peter J Bentley
Samuel Bernard
Guillaume Beslon
David M Bryson
Patryk Chrabaszcz
Nick Cheney
Antoine Cully
Stephane Doncieux
Fred C Dyer
Kai Olav Ellefsen
Robert Feldt
Stephan Fischer
Stephanie Forrest
Antoine Frenoy
Christian Gagne
Leni K Le Goff
Laura M Grabowski
Babak Hodjat
Frank Hutter
Laurent Keller
Carole Knibbe
Peter Krcah
Richard E Lenski
Hod Lipson
Robert MacCurdy
Carlos Maestre
Risto Miikkulainen
Sara Mitri
David E Moriarty
Jean-Baptiste Mouret
Anh Quang Nguyen
Charles Ofria
Marc Parizeau
David P Parsons
Robert T Pennock
William F Punch
Thomas S Ray
Marc Schoenauer
Eric Schulte
Karl Sims
Kenneth O Stanley
Francois Taddei
Danesh Tarapore
Simon Thibault
Westley Weimer
Richard A Watson
Jason Yosinksi
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