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Using Artificial Life to evolve Artificial Intelligence

Using Artificial Life to evolve Artificial Intelligence. Virgil Griffith California Institute of Technology http://virgil.gr virgil@caltech.edu. Google Tech Talk - 2007. as it is…. and might have been. Origin of Life. Today. What is Artificial Life?. Life,. Evolution: an abbrev intro.

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Using Artificial Life to evolve Artificial Intelligence

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  1. Using Artificial Life to evolve Artificial Intelligence Virgil Griffith California Institute of Technology http://virgil.gr virgil@caltech.edu Google Tech Talk - 2007

  2. as it is… and might have been Origin of Life Today What is Artificial Life? Life,

  3. Evolution: an abbrev intro • Evolution is an algorithm • Given only: • Variable population • Selection • Reproduction with occasional errors Regardless of substrate, you get evolution!

  4. Forming body plans with evolution • Node specifies part type, joint, and range of movement • Edges specify the joints between parts • Population? • Graphs of nodes and edges • Selection? • Ability to perform some task (walking, jumping, etc.) • Mutation? • Node types change/new nodes grafted on

  5. [Blocky Creatures Movie]

  6. Using Artificial Lifeto evolveArtificial Intelligence

  7. How to model Intelligence? • Marionettes (ancient Greeks) • Hydraulics (Descartes) • Pulleys and gears (Industrial Revolution) • Telephone switchboard (1930’s) • Boolean logic (1940’s) • Digital computer (1960’s) • Neural networks (1980’s - ?)

  8. Nervous Systems • Evolution found and stuck with nervous systems across all levels of complexity • Provide all behaviors—including anything that might be considered intelligence—in all organisms more complex than plants • Some behaviors are innate, so the wiring diagram (the connections) must matter • But some behaviors are learned, so learning—phenotypic plasticity—must also matter

  9. Not to be confused with:

  10. What Polyworld is • Making artificial intelligence the way Nature made natural intelligence: • The evolution of nervous systems in an ecology • Working our way up the intelligence spectrum • Research tool for evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, cognitive science

  11. What Polyworld is not • Fully open ended • Accurate model of microbiology • Accurate model of any particular ecology • though could be done • Accurate model of any animal’s brain • though could be done

  12. Polyworld Overview • Organisms have: • evolving genes, and mate sexually • a body and metabolism • neural network brains • initial neural wiring is genetic • At birth, all neural weights are random • Hebbian learning refines synapse weights throughout lifetime • 1-dimensional vision (like Flatland) • No fitness function • Fitness is determined by natural selection alone • Critter Colors • Red = current aggression • Blue = current horniness

  13. [Movie - Sample]

  14. Body Genes • Size • Strength • Max speed • Max lifespan • Fraction of energy given to offspring • Greenness • Point-mutation rate • Number of crossover points

  15. Brain Genes • Vision • # of neurons for seeing red • # of neurons for seeing green • # of neurons for seeing blue • # of internal neural groups • For each neural group… • # of excitatory neurons • # of inhibitory neurons • Initial bias of neurons • Bias learning rate • For each pair of neural groups… • Connection density for excitatory neurons • Connection density for inhibitory neurons • Learning rate for excitatory neurons • Learning rate for inhibitory neurons

  16. Move Turn Eat Mate Fight Light Focus Energy Level Random Input Units Processing Units Polyworldian brain map

  17. Polyworld Brain Map (actual)

  18. All about Energy (Health) • Get Energy by: • eating food pellets • eating other Polyworldians • Lose Energy by: • mating, moving, existing • having large size or strength • but get benefits in max-energy and fighting • brain activity • for computational reasons and parsimonious brain size

  19. Behavior sample: Eating

  20. Behavior sample: Killing & Eating

  21. Behavior sample: Mating

  22. Behavior sample: Lighting

  23. New Species: Joggers

  24. New Species: Indolent Cannibals

  25. Emergent Behavior: Visual Response

  26. Emergent Behavior: Fleeing Attack

  27. Foraging, Grazing, Swarming

  28. Observations from Polyworld • Evolution generates a wide range brain wirings • Selection for use of vision • Evolution of emergent behaviors

  29. Ideal Free Distribution in agents with evolved neural architectures Early Middle Late

  30. Predator-Prey Cycles

  31. Cat Random Polyworldian

  32. But is it Alive? Ask Farmer & Belin… • “Life is a pattern in space-time, rather than a specific material object” • “Self-reproduction” • “Information storage of a self-representation” • “A metabolism” • “Functional interactions with the environment” • “The ability to evolve” Farmer, Belin (1992)

  33. But is it Intelligent? • No obvious way to measure intelligence • (aka: We don’t know) • even biologists have a hard time on this • But we’re in a simulation, that means we can use techniques not available to biology! • Information theory • Complexity theory

  34. Neural Functional Complexity

  35. Gould (1994) Carroll (2001) Is there an evolutionary “arrow of complexity”? • Yes – Darwin, Lamarck, Huxley, Valentine • No – Lewontin, Levins, Gould

  36. Evolution drives complexity?

  37. Genetic complexity over time

  38. Neural Complexity: Room to grow

  39. Future Directions • More… • measures of complexity • complex environment • food types • agent senses (touch, smell) • Behavioral Ecology • Optimal foraging (profit vs. predation risk) • Evolutionary Biology • Speciation = ƒ (population isolation) • Altruism = ƒ (genetic similarity) • Classical conditioning, animal intelligence experiments

  40. Source Code • Source code is available! • Runs on Mac/Linux (via Qt) http://www.sf.net/projects/polyworld/

  41. But is this a good idea?

  42. Special Thanks • Larry Yaeger • Chris Adami

  43. Plasticity in Neural Function Function maps The redirect Mriganka Sur, et al Science 1988, Nature 2001

  44. Plasticity in Wiring Patterns of long-range connections in V1, normal A1, and rewired A1 Mriganka Sur, et al. Nature 2001

  45. Hebbian Learning: Structure from Randomness John Pearson, Gerald Edelman

  46. Monkey Cortex, Blasdel and Salama Simulated Cortex, Ralph Linsker Real and Artificial Brain Maps Distribution of orientation-selective cells in visual cortex

  47. Neuroscience Recap • Intelligence is based in brains • Useful brain functions are created by a: • suitable initial neural wiring • general purpose learning mechanism • Artificial neural networks capture key features of biological neural networks • Thus, we could make useful artificial neural systems with: • An evolving population of wiring diagrams • Hebbian learning

  48. Thanks to • Larry Yaeger • Chris Adami

  49. What can Evolution do? • Optimization • Traffic Lights • Air Foil Shape • Fuzzy Problems • Sonar response from sunken ships versus live submarines • Good for management tasks, such as timetables and resource scheduling • Even good for evolving learning algorithms and simulated organisms and behaviors

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