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AMBITIOUS GOAL. “Evolutionary robotics is on the rise. Instead of robots being designed by human beings, machines run iterative processes to produce new code for the robot’s controller. A team of international scientists from Germany, The Netherlands, France and the UK are proposing a new framework called The Triangle of Life. Their aim is to bring the development of robots to a point where it truly mimics biological evolution.” https://lnkd.in/dyHuU2m View in LinkedIn

SYNTHETIC EVOLUTION. “We propose an experimental study where simplistic organisms rise from inanimate matter and evolve solely through physical interactions. These organisms are composed of three types of macroscopic building blocks floating in an agitated medium. Our results suggest that an autonomous evolution of non-biological organisms can be realized in human-designed environments and, potentially, in natural environments as well.” https://lnkd.in/dWJXxpX View in LinkedIn

BIOLOGICAL COMPUTATION. "The borderline between using biological ideas to solve computational problems (bio-inspired computing) and attempting to build systems that behave like biological organisms (artificial life) is fine and often hard to define." https://lnkd.in/dWc3sBk View in LinkedIn

THE FLOWER IMPACTED THE PLANET. “The origin of the flower during the late Jurassic to early Cretaceous eras (most recent estimates are between 150 and 190 MYA) was a key evolutionary innovation that profoundly altered the Earth’s biota.” https://lnkd.in/dm8pYAd View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTION IN FLOWERING PLANTS, a video by Larry Jensen. An outstanding video with brilliant graphics. A must-watch. https://youtu.be/0UEpq1W9C_E View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE considers the evolution of the carpel, the part of flowering plants that is the female flower ovary, the gnoeceium, the heart of reproduction in flowering plants. This single structure is credited with participating in creating ecosystems with other species and transforming the biota of planet Earth. View in LinkedIn

THE TROPHY. “The company made headlines in 2016 when it was reported its AlphaGo program successfully beat a human professional Go player.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_DeepMind View in LinkedIn

NUANCED CHALLENGE. “Go is considered much more difficult for computers to win than other games such as chess, because its much larger branching factor makes it prohibitively difficult to use traditional AI methods such as brute-force search.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo View in LinkedIn

A BIG LEAP FORWARD. “The carpel, or female reproductive organ enclosing the ovules, is one of the major evolutionary innovations of the flowering plants.” https://lnkd.in/dbZEjuz View in LinkedIn