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		panarchy on Sept 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alan Kay on Messaging (1998) "until we start programming by natural selection" We already have reinforcement and other types of machine learning?

linguae on Sept 29, 2024 [–]

Even closer to the OP, there was a branch of AI in the 1990s known as genetic programming that literally applied the concept of natural selection to solving certain types of problems:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262527910/genetic-programming/

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