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Darwin programs AI

Isabella Grandic
7 min readApr 7, 2019

Charles Darwin taught the world about the survival of the fittest and natural selection & he was the evolutionary father himself 😎.

Evolution has been a “theory” for a long time; it’s nature’s way of “optimizing” for species survival.

The man himself, Darwin, went on a trip around the world, chilled on the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, and discovered that all living things evolved from a common ancestor.

The man himself observing amphibians

Darwin’s theory of evolution is actually more useful than a description to how us humans evolved from:

Our distant grandfather 👋

Evolution = Nature’s way to optimize living things.

Forget nature… We can use this same process to optimize AI 🤯.

AI h̶a̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶o̶t̶e̶n̶t̶i̶a̶l̶ will improve every single industry, from agriculture to healthcare to retail. Deep learning (DL) will easily automate all industry tasks.

But right now, the models we’re using require lots of data and training. These models are GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). Shitty data =…

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Isabella Grandic
Isabella Grandic

Written by Isabella Grandic

Chems banker, lover of the world, always dreaming up ideas for societal infrastructure!

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