AI Improves At Improving Itself Using an Evolutionary Trick (ieee.org) 20 Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday June 28, 2025 @09:34PM from the world's-scariest-sandbox dept., The system itself has an internal feedback loop to take the best proposed solutions as weighted by the evolutionary algorithm and gives it back to the prompting module, which then activates the LLM, and the cycle repeats., In the 1980s and 1990s, Schmidhuber and others explored evolutionary algorithms for improving coding agents, creating programs that write programs. An evolutionary algorithm takes something (such as a program), creates variations, keeps the best ones, and iterates on those. But evolution is unpredictable., Today, we’re announcing AlphaEvolve, an evolutionary coding agent powered by large language models for general-purpose algorithm discovery and optimization. AlphaEvolve pairs the creative problem-solving capabilities of our Gemini models with automated evaluators that verify answers, and uses an evolutionary framework to improve upon the most , The Inspiration: Evolution, Gödel, and Open-Endedness The name “Darwin Gödel Machine” itself hints at the profound concepts that underpin its design: Learning from Darwin: The Power of Evolution The “Darwin” aspect refers to the principles of biological evolution., .