Imperfection and randomness is a strength (that's why evolution doesn't make perfect copies, you might end up with the random mutation that protects you from the next pandemic) you could imagine that machines need human intelligence to think outside the box
The solution to the dated model exists, it's git/github. I'm trying to build a "git journal" (essentially a github org where projects/research gets published paired with a substack newsletter), details here [0]
Let me know if you have a project you'd like to get on there! Here's what it looks like, a paper on directed evolution [1]