Genetic algorithm labs

Watch a population solve something it was never taught.

Two browser experiments in evolutionary computation. In both, nothing is designed and nothing is copied — a population of random candidates is scored, the better ones become parents, their genomes recombine and mutate, and the answer emerges from that alone.

• Music Drop in a MIDI file. Four hundred random pieces are bred toward it while a sampled grand piano plays the best candidate live, correcting itself as it goes. Open →
• Maze A population of agents carrying random movement instructions. No route is programmed and no agent can see the walls. Open →