Can reproduction alone in the context of survival produce intelligence in our machines? In this work, self-replication is explored as a mechanism for the emergence of intelligent behavior in modern learning environments. By focusing purely on survival, while undergoing natural selection, evolved organisms are shown to produce meaningful, complex, and intelligent behavior, demonstrating creative solutions to challenging problems without any notion of reward or objectives. Atari and robotic learning environments are re-defined in terms of natural selection, and the behavior which emerged in self-replicating organisms during these experiments is described in detail.

翻译：仅凭生存的再生能否在我们的机器中产生智能? 在这项工作中,自我复制被探索为现代学习环境中出现智能行为的一种机制。 纯粹以生存为重点,在进行自然选择的同时,进化的有机体可以产生有意义、复杂和智能的行为,在没有任何奖赏或目标概念的情况下展示挑战问题的创造性解决办法。 阿塔里和机器人学习环境被重新定义为自然选择,这些实验中自我复制的生物体中出现的行为被详细描述。