Comments on: A Better Idea? Some Thoughts on Evolution, Fitness & Creativity

By: Neural Darwinism – An Idea Reborn? | blprnt.blg

Neural Darwinism – An Idea Reborn? | blprnt.blg — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:19:52 +0000

[...] mental environments for ideas to evolve within. I’ve written about some of these ideas in previous posts on this blog. Like the best theories, it also seemed to have a certain elegance to it – [...]

By: Generative Art Is Not … Your Father’s Art Form. | 100 Abandoned Artworks

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:09:41 +0000

[...] develop a sense of aesthetics (there has been plenty of work towards this aim within the field of evolutionary systems), it will never be the best division of labor in a human-machine creative partnership. If we need [...]

By: 7 Days of Source Day #7: Variance | blprnt.blg

7 Days of Source Day #7: Variance | blprnt.blg — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:23:15 +0000

[...] modifications that they may not have tried themselves. This is a very direct application of the an Evolutionary Creative Process (ECP), which I’ve talked about before on this [...]

By: Jer

Jer — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:34:32 +0000

Thanks for the recommendation.

It looks like it is on Google Books – http://books.google.com/books?id=eUoolrxSFy0C&dq=origin+of+wealth&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=szhuSvryGoegswPI89XtAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5

Any economics book starting with a quote from Thomas Kuhn is enough to get me interested.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:00:47 +0000

You need to read the “Origin of Wealth”, one of the best books I have read in years. It will do wonders to advance your thinking about the evolution algorithm

By: blprnt

blprnt — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:34:30 +0000

Combining GAs and neural nets is something that has worked for others in the past - specifically I'm thinking about Mario Klingemann's Blind Sketchmaker project (http://lectures.quasimondo.com/the_blind_sketch...).

Most aesthetic fitness assessment that I have seen is comparative, and is obviously influenced by what kinds of criteria you catalog the original images (or sounds, etc) by. I am not sure that computers are good enough at this yet to make this kind of a process better than one that involved human judgement. A lot of projects have allowed for this and used crowd-sourcing to have humans rate fitness within a population - this seems like a very good approach.

Theo Jansen's creations are incredible - some of the most inspiring things I have ever seen. I would love to see them in person!

By: inspired12

inspired12 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:15:43 +0000

I have been reading about using multiple types of AI as a way to reach better results. You kind of mention this in the way you describe aesthetic judgments as an additional tool for the “brute” genetic algorithms… what about using neural nets for judging aesthetics and GA for surfing the fitness landscape?
I am excited to hear about your new project, AI use in design is an intense prospect… Im sure you have heard of the Theo Jansen? thanks for the food for thought