Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Researcher
Now VP and Fellow; CTO of Technology & Society; founder of Paradigms of Intelligence, Google
Latest on AI4S.fyiInterview · Oct 9Agüera y Arcas: life is self-constructing computation that grows complex through cooperation, and his team watched replicators appear in random codePhotos come from each person's X account, their own site, lab or team page, a conference page that lists them as a speaker in the same role, or Wikimedia Commons under the licence credited, so some may be out of date. Anyone can ask for theirs to be replaced or removed. Contact →
Affiliations
Current
- VP and Fellow; CTO of Technology & Society; founder of Paradigms of Intelligence · Google
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Interviews
On the timeline
- 2026-09-09Random Z80 programs that pay energy for every instruction evolve to copy themselves while holding back from stealing each other's energy
- 2026-07-01A follow-up from the BFF team finds tuned random mutation discovers self-copying programs faster than the soup's paired interactions
- 2024-06-27Google researchers report that self-copying programs arise on their own in a soup of random code, with no goal or fitness score
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