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@article{Lehman:2020:10.1162/artl_a_00319,
author = {Lehman, J and Clune, J and Misevic, D and Adami, C and Altenberg, L and Beaulieu, J and Bentley, PJ and Bernard, S and Beslon, G and Bryson, DM and Cheney, N and Chrabaszcz, P and Cully, A and Doncieux, S and Dyer, FC and Ellefsen, KO and Feldt, R and Fischer, S and Forrest, S and Frenoy, A and Gagn, C and Le, Goff L and Grabowski, LM and Hodjat, B and Hutter, F and Keller, L and Knibbe, C and Krcah, P and Lenski, RE and Lipson, H and MacCurdy, R and Maestre, C and Miikkulainen, R and Mitri, S and Moriarty, DE and Mouret, J-B and Anh, N and Ofria, C and Parizeau, M and Parsons, D and Pennock, RT and Punch, WF and Ray, TS and Schoenauer, M and Shulte, E and Sims, K and Stanley, KO and Taddei, F and Tarapore, D and Thibault, S and Watson, R and Weimer, W and Yosinski, J},
doi = {10.1162/artl_a_00319},
journal = {Artificial Life},
pages = {274--306},
title = {The surprising creativity of digital evolution: a collection of anecdotes from the evolutionary computation and artificial life research communities},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00319},
volume = {26},
year = {2020}
}

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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Evolution provides a creative fount of complex and subtle adaptations that often surprise the scientists who discover them. However, the creativity of evolution is not limited to the natural world: Artificial organisms evolving in computational environments have also elicited surprise and wonder from the researchers studying them. The process of evolution is an algorithmic process that transcends the substrate in which it occurs. Indeed, many researchers in the field of digital evolution can provide examples of how their evolving algorithms and organisms have creatively subverted their expectations or intentions, exposed unrecognized bugs in their code, produced unexpectedly adaptations, or engaged in behaviors and outcomes, uncannily convergent with ones found in nature. Such stories routinely reveal surprise and creativity by evolution in these digital worlds, but they rarely fit into the standard scientific narrative. Instead they are often treated as mere obstacles to be overcome, rather than results that warrant study in their own right. Bugs are fixed, experiments are refocused, and one-off surprises are collapsed into a single data point. The stories themselves are traded among researchers through oral tradition, but that mode of information transmission is inefficient and prone to error and outright loss. Moreover, the fact that these stories tend to be shared only among practitioners means that many natural scientists do not realize how interesting and lifelike digital organisms are and how natural their evolution can be. To our knowledge, no collection of such anecdotes has been published before. This article is the crowd-sourced product of researchers in the fields of artificial life and evolutionary computation who have provided first-hand accounts of such cases. It thus serves as a written, fact-checked collection of scientifically important and even entertaining stories. In doing so we also present here substantial evidence that the existence and impor
AU  - Lehman,J
AU  - Clune,J
AU  - Misevic,D
AU  - Adami,C
AU  - Altenberg,L
AU  - Beaulieu,J
AU  - Bentley,PJ
AU  - Bernard,S
AU  - Beslon,G
AU  - Bryson,DM
AU  - Cheney,N
AU  - Chrabaszcz,P
AU  - Cully,A
AU  - Doncieux,S
AU  - Dyer,FC
AU  - Ellefsen,KO
AU  - Feldt,R
AU  - Fischer,S
AU  - Forrest,S
AU  - Frenoy,A
AU  - Gagn,C
AU  - Le,Goff L
AU  - Grabowski,LM
AU  - Hodjat,B
AU  - Hutter,F
AU  - Keller,L
AU  - Knibbe,C
AU  - Krcah,P
AU  - Lenski,RE
AU  - Lipson,H
AU  - MacCurdy,R
AU  - Maestre,C
AU  - Miikkulainen,R
AU  - Mitri,S
AU  - Moriarty,DE
AU  - Mouret,J-B
AU  - Anh,N
AU  - Ofria,C
AU  - Parizeau,M
AU  - Parsons,D
AU  - Pennock,RT
AU  - Punch,WF
AU  - Ray,TS
AU  - Schoenauer,M
AU  - Shulte,E
AU  - Sims,K
AU  - Stanley,KO
AU  - Taddei,F
AU  - Tarapore,D
AU  - Thibault,S
AU  - Watson,R
AU  - Weimer,W
AU  - Yosinski,J
DO  - 10.1162/artl_a_00319
EP  - 306
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1064-5462
SP  - 274
TI  - The surprising creativity of digital evolution: a collection of anecdotes from the evolutionary computation and artificial life research communities
T2  - Artificial Life
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00319
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000538132300006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/artl_a_00319
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/83343
VL  - 26
ER  -

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