Lee Spector - The Next Phase of Evolution Is Artificial (Worthy Successor, Episode 27)

About this episode

An interview with Lee Spector discussing evolutionary computation and its implications for future intelligence.

This new installment of the Worthy Successor series is an interview with Lee Spector, a professor at Amherst College and a researcher in evolutionary computation, whose work applies concepts like variation and selection to the development of intelligent systems. We talk about how evolutionary processes challenge fixed notions of species and continuity over time, and why future forms of intelligence may be difficult to understand from a present-day human perspective. The interview is o...

People in this episode

Host: Daniel Faggella

Guest: Lee Spector

Topics covered

• evolutionary computation
• intelligent systems
• species continuity
• future intelligence
• human perspective

Keywords

• evolution
• intelligence
• variation
• selection
• evolutionary processes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amherst College

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