Genetics: Dawkins, redux

Comfort, Nathaniel

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“…This reasoning suffers from the same flaws, but on a more granular level. Genes are just as fluid, as dynamic, as modular, and as responsive to their environment as macro-organisms and micro-organisms [24]: they compete and collaborate, interact with other genes, and thus maintain their diversity. The apparent excess genetic material in organisms supports the idea of exploration in the space of traits and resources -by the organism, and by the gene pool.…”

Section: • Ever Present Genomic and Developmental Variability (Includ...mentioning

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Reward is not enough: can we liberate AI from the reinforcement learning paradigm?

Glukhov¹

2022

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I present arguments against the hypothesis put forward by Silver, Singh, Precup, and Sutton [1]: reward maximization is not enough to explain many activities associated with natural and artificial intelligence including knowledge, learning, perception, social intelligence, evolution, language, generalisation and imitation.I show such reductio ad lucrum has its intellectual origins in the political economy of Homo economicus and substantially overlaps with the radical version of behaviourism.I show why the reinforcement learning paradigm, despite its demonstrable usefulness in some practical application, is an incomplete framework for intelligence -natural and artificial.Complexities of intelligent behaviour are not simply second-order complications on top of reward maximisation. This fact has profound implications for the development of practically usable, smart, safe and robust artificially intelligent agents 1 .

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Reward is not enough: can we liberate AI from the reinforcement learning paradigm?

Glukhov¹

2022

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“…Dawkins' biomorphs have nine genes. [Com15]: "In his simulations, life is utterly determined by genes, which specify developmental rules and fixed traits such as colour. The more lifelike his digital animals ("biomorphs") become, the more persuaded he is that real genes work in roughly the same way."…”

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“…inspiration from Dawkin's ideas, though Dawkins has faced recent criticism. In a review of Dawkin's book Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science [Daw15], Comfort critiques the book [Com15]: "In his simulations, life is utterly determined by genes, which specify developmental rules and fixed traits such as colour.…”

Section: Biomorphsmentioning

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“…Nearly all later work, including landmark works such as Sims [Sim94] and Todd & Latham [TL92] can be seen as taking inspiration from Dawkin's ideas, though Dawkins has faced recent criticism. In a review of Dawkin's book Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science [Daw15], Comfort critiques the book [Com15]: “In his simulations, life is utterly determined by genes, which specify developmental rules and fixed traits such as colour. The more lifelike his digital animals (“biomorphs”) become, the more persuaded he is that real genes work in roughly the same way.” and “Genes cooperate, evolving together as units to produce traits.…”

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Virtual Creature Morphology ‐ A Review

Lai

Leymarie

Latham

et al. 2021

Computer Graphics Forum

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We present a review of methods for procedurally generating the morphology of virtual creatures. We include a range of methods, with the main groups being from ALife over art to video games. Even though at times these groups overlap, for clarity we have kept this distinction. By including the word virtual, we mean that we focus on methods for simulation in silico, and not physical robots. We also include a historical perspective, with information on methods such as cellular automata, L-systems and a focus on earlier pioneers in the field. CCS Concepts• Applied computing → Computational biology; • Hardware → Biology-related information processing; • Software and its engineering → Interactive games; • Computing methodologies → Artificial life;

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“…Dawkins' The God Delusion (2009) (7) was a best seller that placed him among the “Four Horsemen of Atheism” together with Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris. Objecting critics still call it an “ecclesiophobic diatribe…forming the scripture of the ‘new atheism,‘ a fundamentalist sect” (8). His Darwinian reproach of intelligent design and/or creationism, beliefs held by a majority of Americans, has earned him a high spot on the opponent list of the Creation Science Hall of Fame (9).…”

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Summa cum Laude : Richard Dawkin'sBrief Candle in the Dark (HarperCollins, New York, 2015, 455 pp.)

Weissmann

2016

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Genetics: Dawkins, redux

Cited by 3 publications

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Reward is not enough: can we liberate AI from the reinforcement learning paradigm?

Reward is not enough: can we liberate AI from the reinforcement learning paradigm?

Virtual Creature Morphology ‐ A Review

Summa cum Laude : Richard Dawkin'sBrief Candle in the Dark (HarperCollins, New York, 2015, 455 pp.)

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