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EXECUTIVE BOT. "McCann Japan Finally Hires a Robot as Creative Director. Our team didn’t have a creative director, so we thought, why not create one ourselves with artificial intelligence? That’s how the Creative Genome Project got started. Our hope is for our A.I. creative director to work on many projects, gain experience, and to grow into a world-class creative director that will leave a mark in the advertising industry.” http://www.adweek.com/agencyspy/mccann-japan-finally-hires-a-robot-as-creative-director/105466 View in LinkedIn

BOT INSIGHT. "Developing creativity in cognitive robots. I aim to build robots capable of insight using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning. Insight problems require going against one's initial intuition and making use of experience to discover an original – and better – solution. A robot capable of meeting these challenges will solve insight problems in a manner consistent with the bulk of the psychological literature on insight." https://lnkd.in/e7GyPvt View in LinkedIn

MODEL #4. "Some complexity theorists believe that laws of self-organization exist that play a role in the evolution of biological complexity. The interaction of various component parts, it is argued, leads inevitably to complex patterns of organization." https://lnkd.in/dJG4bYH View in LinkedIn

MODEL #3 NARRATIVE. "Multiple genes linked by a gene regulatory system can be co-opted as a unit for a new function; their examples include the evolution of butterfly eyespots, vertebrate limbs, complex leaves in plants, and feathers." https://lnkd.in/dJG4bYH View in LinkedIn

MODEL #3 NARRATIVE. "Multiple genes linked by a gene regulatory system can be co-opted as a unit for a new function; their examples include the evolution of butterfly eyespots, vertebrate limbs, complex leaves in plants, and feathers." https://lnkd.in/dJG4bYH View in LinkedIn

MODEL #3 NARRATIVE. "The Krebs cycle posed a real difficulty to evolutionary biologists because intermediate stages in its evolution would have no functionality. An analysis of the component enzymes and cofactors, however, revealed that the component parts and intermediate stages had functions apart from their role in the Krebs cycle." (Bolt-on evolution). https://lnkd.in/dJG4bYH View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the theme of how complexity arose, and the implications for cooperation. Evolution is an ongoing reality, and while we look at trends in plants and animals, it is tempting to speculate about where the next big step is for humanity, if we do not succeed in making our own extinction, and that of the planet at the same time. View in LinkedIn

SWARM BENEFITS. "The potential benefits of such approach are several: robustness: the failure of individual elements does not degrade significantly the performance of the entire system;" "simplicity: the individual behavior is simple but still it allows to reduce the complexity of individuals; " "scalability: the control mechanisms used do not depend on the agents number within a swarm." https://lnkd.in/dTg7N-6 View in LinkedIn

NOT PERFECT. "How does an enzyme evolve from a given ancestral function to novel functions through descent with modification? Following scrutiny of multitude enzyme behaviors, it has been increasingly recognized that enzymes are not as ‘perfected’ as we assumed, but rather contain varying levels of catalytic promiscuity." https://lnkd.in/d3RnrBP View in LinkedIn

SWARM SOCIETY. "The emergence of such a complex behavior extends beyond the swarms. Complex social structures are similar in bigger animals as well as other types of insects. Some examples are colonies of ants and termites, flocks of birds, schools of fish, colonies of bacteria, or even herds of terrestrial animals." https://lnkd.in/dTg7N-6 View in LinkedIn