Researchers have studied the possibility of "breeding" robots and artificial intelligence. The results showed that the "offspring" can inherit the code of both parents - similar to how genetic information is transmitted during biological reproduction.
It seems that the so-called evolutionary robotics asked the question: why make life difficult by building new and improved machines, if modern robots can do it for us?
This idea appeals to high-tech Darwinism, where the main goal of researchers is to develop artificial intelligence and robots that can analyze their own source code and "mate" with others by combining pieces of code to create offspring, like organic life.
Just as biological life evolves to fill ecological cells, such robotic offspring can be more adapted to their environment. According to the publication of the publication Wired, some research teams are heading forward to make this technology a reality.
An example of architecture, creation of solutions, creation of a robot and a hierarchical genotype of multilevel evolution / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Computer scientists at the Free University of Amsterdam have developed a simplified system that shows how robots of the future can exchange and combine genetic information.
A recent study by scientists, published in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, in which two robotic parents were programmed to encode a new "offspring", showed that the resulting child can "inherit" a mixture of parental codes, as well as some modules that can be said to have mutated or mixed on their own.
“It provides a lot of variety and also gives you the opportunity to explore areas of the design space that you would not normally touch,” says David Howard, one of the scientists involved in the project.
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For nearly 20 years, Howard has dreamed of scientists mass-producing cheap robots that can do the job they are assigned to and then breed the most successful ones. The researcher believes that in this way it will be possible to obtain a new generation of robots that are constantly improving a certain skill.
“One of the factors that makes natural evolution so effective is the idea that it can actually specialize a creature to its environment,” Howard said.
Vladimir Guillen
