I am incredibly grateful to my co-authors Sebastian Risi, Yujin Tang, and Risto Miikkulainen for making this happen. Neuroevolution is a subject very dear to my heart. It is the field that convinced me that nature has already figured out how to build intelligence: through evolution, collective behavior, and adaptation under constraints.
This idea, that intelligence emerges from evolution operating under constraints rather than unlimited resources, is what eventually led me to founding Sakana AI here in Japan.
The concepts in this book about open-ended creativity and self-organizing systems are exactly what we build at @SakanaAILabs. Our name and logo are inspired by schools of fish moving together, adapting as one. It is the core philosophy of what we build. This book captures the theoretical foundations of that belief.
