It's been renamed several times as things like complexity science, forked into spinoffs like artificial life and dynamical systems theory, and it crosses over into game theory quite a bit. The whole field is fascinating, but it's got a bad case of neologismania. That's a term I just made up to describe the tendency in some scientific fields to constantly make up new terms even if they're redundant.
Thank you for writing your comment. It sounds like you're familiar with this field. Is there some book you'd recommend (for learning about this topic, by whatever names) above this one?
Melanie Mitchell’s “Complexity: A Guided Tour” is a superb introduction to this area.
And while I’m plugging her books, her latest one is one of the best-written lay-audience books about machine learning and AI that I’ve seen. I strongly recommended it for anybody curious about the field, and also for people working in the area- her explanations are crystal-clear but not dumbed down in the slightest. It’s called “Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for the Thinking Person.”
