Interactions between Learning and Evolution: The Outstanding Strategy Generated by the Baldwin Effect

Artificial Life (AL) test bed Results Decision Making Project Applicability Motivation This combines two completely different time scales Learning is a individual behaviour Evolution operates at the level of populations over extended periods of time " An entire life of learning is but one tick of the clock for evolution. " What is the motivation to create a system that combines genetic programming with reinforcement learning? Motivation Extremely difficult to study the interaction between evolution and learning in the " real world " fossils provide information about evolution but provide very little data about day-today life can study evolution of some life forms (viruses, bacteria, flies) that have a short enough life span to study a significant number of generations, but unfortunately these have little ability to learn Motivation