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Perspective: Purposeful Failure in Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence

arXiv 2102.12076 ↗First posted 24 Feb 2021cs.AI cs.CY cs.LGcited by 1

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Abstract (arXiv)

Complex systems fail. I argue that failures can be a blueprint characterizing living organisms and biological intelligence, a control mechanism to increase complexity in evolutionary simulations, and an alternative to classical fitness optimization. Imitating biological successes in Artificial Life and Artificial Intelligence can be misleading; imitating failures offers a path towards understanding and emulating life it in artificial systems.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 3 of its 28 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 24 Feb 2021.

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  1. 2014Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examplescited by 7,364
  2. 2013Intriguing properties of neural networkscited by 5,155
  3. 2015Towards Biologically Plausible Deep Learningcited by 66

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