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#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation
Lex Fridman Podcast
Evolution and Mutation in Biology?
In computation we tend to rely more on mutation and that is making random changes into parts of the chromosome. In biology you do have DNA strings that are cut and put together again. That's where evolution computation has moved in the last 20 years. I mean evolution computation has been around for 50 years but a lot of the reason success comes from mutation comes from using statistics. It's like the rest of machine learning based on statistics. We use similar tools to guide evolutionary computation. And in that sense it has diverged a bit from biological evolution.
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