Although not the same, Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks reminds me of the first machine learning project I worked on for my ml class in grad school. I modified Kenneth Stanley's NEAT algorithm to evolve neural networks that combined piecewise functions to play Mario, which was…

Delighted to share that I've been promoted to Professor (aka “Full Professor”) A huge thanks to my wife, students, collaborators, colleagues, family, & friends for everything. It's been an exhilarating, wondrous, fascinating climb, and what a view! Now, which peak to climb next?

I had a great time speaking about Maven on the aptly-named Social Media Sucks Podcast. This was a fun and interesting discussion!

Got a thing for AI, social media, or dreaming about where it's all heading? 🚀

You won't want to miss our latest podcast jam featuring the genius behind Maven , Dr. Kenneth Stanley

Plug in for a wild ride, here: kubbco.com/podcast/can-ai…

It was a great pleasure to reminisce with SethBling about his famous MarI/O NEAT experiment (seen by over 10 million people!) and the long and surprising road for me all the way from NEAT to the Maven social network today. Thanks Seth!!

Almost 10 years ago I released MarI/O, a neural network that taught itself to play video games using Neuro Evolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT).

Check out my new interview with Ken Stanley, the author of NEAT:

youtu.be/5zg_5hg8Ydo

Following Kenneth Stanley recommendation I’ve just finished Elliott Parker book “The Illusion of Innovation”. It’s a great book that builds on top of Kenneth’s ideas about how to innovate but focusing on a more corporate setting.

I have underlined many sections but I think this is…

Streaming current MAP Elites w/ hyperNEAT work on Super Mario Brothers.
youtube.com/watch?v=R1Let9…

ACES on code SFT

🌈 Teaming on QD-generated alignment data

A fun QD intro and timeline/papers: quality-diversity.github.io

Pioneered by many great researchers including Joel Lehman Kenneth Stanley Jean-Baptiste Mouret Jeff Clune Antoine Cully Stefanos Nikolaidis and many more!

Excited to be talking about Maven on the #SocialMediaSucks podcast taping Monday! See below to suggest questions in advance.

This book by my friend Elliott Parker takes a thought-provoking perspective on innovation that also draws on ideas from Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. It's worth a look!

Optimization alone can't get you novelty or interestingness.

Side project: Identifying Life-Changing Books with LLMs

tldr: Language models can analyze millions of book reviews to identify books that readers are most likely to say 'changed their life.'

blog (w/ complete list of 300 most 'life-changing' books): flourish.ing/identifying-li…

ICYMI: Kenneth Stanley's presentation 'A Social Network Inspired by Open-Endedness' is available on our Youtube channel 🙌 youtube.com/live/73svHfR3e…

New Paper Out.

Evolutionary Optimization of Model Merging Recipes
arxiv.org/abs/2403.13187

Our goal is not about training any particular individual foundation model. Instead, we think it makes more sense to create the machinery to automatically generate foundation models for us!

Should you let an LLM, such as ChatGPT, help you make your game? Will it add cool/fun features? Is the code any good? Will it be aesthetically coherent? We set out to find out in our new paper, 'The Ink Splotch Effect: A Case Study on ChatGPT as a Co-Creative Game Designer'.

Kenneth Stanley The session with Kenneth Stanley will start at 8:30(JST), live on YT youtube.com/live/73svHfR3e…

Excited to share a project I have been working on at DeepMind. Congrats to the entire, wonderful SIMA team! I look forward to hearing what the community thinks of this advance.

We're thrilled to have Kenneth Stanley joining us this week to present 'A Social Network Inspired by Open-Endedness.'
Join us this Friday from 9am JST via YouTube Live 👉 youtube.com/live/73svHfR3e… #crossroads

Save the date! Next Friday, Kenneth Stanley will join us on Cross Roads to talk about how studying open endedness in AI and ALife led him on an exciting adventure to create a new, innovative social network. Mark your calendars for March 15 @ 9AM JST. More details to come!