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#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

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Detection of Intelligent Communication

If you are running the simulation and you observe humans emerge, how would you detect that? Because you're really busy as the creator of this evolutionary system. So if you are looking for certain things like communication, you'll have detectors to find out whether that's happening. And I think that's what we would do. We know roughly what we want, intelligent agents that communicate, cooperate, manipulate,. The first measurement would be to detect how much of an effect you can have in your environment. If you survive long enough, especially through the mass extinctions, that could be the thing your detector is detecting.

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