Evolution — A Paradigm for Constructing Intelligent Agents

Attractive titles bear the danger to promise more than the text will hold. In order to clarify my intentions I start the introduction by describing what the text will not describe. First of all, I will not claim that any artificial evolution can indeed construct intelligent agents. Of course, there seems to be a constructive proof, that in biology evolution can construct intelligent agents, e.g., human beings. But the situation is comparable to that concerning the state of the art of the paradigm of neural networks. There also seems to be a constructive proof, that in biology natural neural networks can implement intelligence, but no artificial neural network has gained the common acknowledgment of being truly intelligent. Therefore we neglect the term intelligent in the following considerations, although it clearly remains our ultimate goal to construct intelligent agents.

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