Topic: evolutionary selection

Artificial Intelligence (AI) research has provided key insights into the mechanics of learning complex tasks. However, AI models have long overlooked innateness: how strong pressures for survival lead to the encoding of complex behaviors in the nascent wiring of a brain. Although innate neural solutions have inspired AI approaches from layered architectures to ConvNets, the underlying neuroevolutionary search for novel heuristics has not been successfully systematized. In this manuscript, we examine how neurodevelopmental principles can inform the discovery of useful inductive biases. We begin