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 Lee Altenberg and
Julie Beaulieu and Peter J. Bentley and Samuel Bernard and
Guillaume Beslon and David M. Bryson and Nick Cheney and
Patryk Chrabaszcz 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 {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 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 Richard Watson and Westley Weimer and
Jason Yosinski",
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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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journal = "Artificial Life",
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year = "2020",
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volume = "26",
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number = "2",
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pages = "274--306",
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month = "Spring",
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keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Surprise,
creativity, digital evolution, experimental evolution,
evolutionary computation",
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ISSN = "1064-5462",
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DOI = "doi:10.1162/artl_a_00319",
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size = "33 pages",
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abstract = "Evolution provides a creative fount of complex and
subtle adaptations that often surprise the scientists
who discover them. However, the creativity of evolution
is not limited to the natural world: Artificial
organisms evolving in computational environments have
also elicited surprise and wonder from the researchers
studying them. The process of evolution is an
algorithmic process that transcends the substrate in
which it occurs. Indeed, many researchers in the field
of digital evolution can provide examples of how their
evolving algorithms and organisms have creatively
subverted their expectations or intentions, exposed
unrecognized bugs in their code, produced unexpectedly
adaptations, or engaged in behaviors and outcomes,
uncannily convergent with ones found in nature. Such
stories routinely reveal surprise and 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. Bugs are fixed, experiments are refocused, and
one-off surprises are collapsed into a single data
point. 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 life like digital organisms are and how
natural their evolution can be. To our knowledge, no
collection of such anecdotes has been published before.
This article 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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Joel Lehman
Jeff Clune
Dusan Misevic
Christoph Adami
Lee Altenberg
Julie Beaulieu
Peter J Bentley
Samuel Bernard
Guillaume Beslon
David M Bryson
Nick Cheney
Patryk Chrabaszcz
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 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
Richard A Watson
Westley Weimer
Jason Yosinski
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