Some really fine 10 minutes of discussion and video - - regarding some incredible developments in Chaos-Theory-enhanced A.I. can be found here in this 2019 link on a documentary put together by Jim Al-Khalili.
Go to time stamp 52:00, and meet Thornton Reil, who has harnessed evolutionary theory to make his video game technology more complex than any human could have created himself in the same amount of time!:
Four notable screenshots on computer-enhanced software evolution
@swamidass, if you haven’t already, I hope you get a chance to either see either the TED Talk, or the 10 minutes from the 2019 documentary!
This is the computational proof that information and complexity can evolve from nothing !!!