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AI unveils strange chip designs, while discovering new functionalities (techxplore.com)
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[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think this is what I am thinking of. Kind of a predecessor of modern machine learning.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It is a form of machine learning

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 2 points 44 minutes ago

Which is just stochastic optimisation.

Which yes is exactly what evolution does, big picture. Small picture the genome evolves a bit more intelligently, using not random generation and filtering but an algorithm employing randomness to generate, and then the usual survival filter because doing it that way is, well, fitter. Also what you can see under a microscope.