The DemystifySci Podcast The Universe Inside: Intelligence from Cells to Galaxies - Dr. Michael Levin, DSPod #213
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Jan 8, 2024 
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Minimal Intelligence
- Intelligence involves achieving goals through diverse means, even with limitations.
- Minimal systems, like sorting algorithms, can exhibit surprising problem-solving abilities.
Emergent Competencies
- Distributed, bottom-up systems can achieve complex goals, like sorting numbers, without central control.
- Introducing unreliable components reveals emergent competencies like delayed gratification.
Chimera Algorithms
- Combining different algorithms (like in biological chimeras) reveals emergent goals, such as algo-type clustering.
- These emergent goals are not explicitly programmed but arise from the system's interactions.