IMHO, GoL is too simple (as Einstein might have said). The machinery GoL can produce is "curious", but overly complicated. IOW, GoL is not complex enough to produce results that can be reasoned about usefully/meaningfully.
They used CNNs in this experiment to learn how far a NN could predict GoL into the future. It can't be done, for GoL is not finite.
They used CNNs in this experiment to learn how far a NN could predict GoL into the future. It can't be done, for GoL is not finite.