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Artif Life. 2019 Summer;25(3):232-235. doi: 10.1162/artl_a_00294.
Rather than acting as a review or analysis of the field, this essay focuses squarely on the motivations for investigating open-endedness and the opportunities it opens up. It begins by contemplating the awesome accomplishments of evolution in nature and the profound implications if such a process could be ignited on a computer. Some of the milestones in our understanding so far are then discussed, finally closing by highlighting the grand challenge of formalizing open-endedness as a computational process that can be encoded as an algorithm. The main contribution is to articulate why open-endedness deserves a place alongside artificial intelligence as one of the great computational challenges, and opportunities, of our time.
本文并非对该领域的回顾或分析，而是专注于探究开放性的动机以及它所带来的机遇。本文首先思考了自然界中进化的惊人成就，如果这一过程可以在计算机上引发，将会产生怎样的深远影响。随后讨论了我们迄今为止在理解上的一些里程碑，最后强调了将开放性形式化为可作为算法进行编码的计算过程的巨大挑战。本文的主要贡献在于阐明为什么开放性应该与人工智能一起，成为我们这个时代的重大计算挑战和机遇之一。
