The evolution of ideas - how artificial intelligence can help us

Thinking against the grain with artificial intelligence - A guest commentary by science journalist Manuela Lenzen

In 2013, a research group led by scientist Sam Kriegman from Northwestern Unive
In 2013, a research group led by scientist Sam Kriegman from Northwestern University in the US used AI to design an algorithm that generated an efficient three-legged robot prototype - a human developer would not have come up with the idea. © Northwestern University
People want to know how stories continue. This is true of streaming series, and it is certainly true of the biggest story of them all: the evolution of life on Earth. Species change, and anyone or anything that once ruled the Earth can also perish - or embark on the journey from dinosaur to chicken. So what will become of humankind? What will it have to make way for?

Artificial intelligence (AI) comes into play in many of the visions of how evolution will continue. In the gloomier versions: in the evolutionary race, humankind loses out to machines which become ever faster and have long since spun out of control. Humankind perishes... ...
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