Krauss v. Meyer: Computer Algorithms as a Fair Model of Darwinian Processes?

You might have missed an overlap in Saturday's debate, Meyer v. Krauss v. Lamoureux, with headlines in technology news. A computer algorithm, AlphaGo, has crossed a threshold, beating a champion player of the Chinese board game Go. In the debate, "What's Behind It All? God, Science, and the Universe," Lawrence Krauss adduced such feats as support for algorithms as a fair model of Darwinian processes. To Meyer's objection that a program requires a programmer, Krauss responded that the softwar...