Blaise Aguera y Arcas: random code self-replicates in our alife experiments, AGI continues evolution
blaiseaguera · x · 2026-10-20
Blaise Aguera y Arcas, who leads the Paradigms of Intelligence team, reports that their artificial life experiments show the same dynamic found in biological evolution: random code beginning to cooperate and self-replicate.
He argues intelligence scales through symbiogenesis — free-swimming bacteria merged to become mitochondria, ancient viral genes help form memories — as distinct entities fuse into more complex wholes. Viewed functionally, AGI is part of the same evolutionary story: humanity's new symbiont.
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