Sakana Replicates Picbreeder Using VLM Agents
burny_tech · x · 2026-07-11
- Sakana AI published a new blog/paper "In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models" in collaboration with MIT and NYU, studying whether AI can exhibit creativity without explicit goals.
- They replicated the early website Picbreeder: users repeatedly selected "interesting" images, causing images to naturally evolve into unexpected forms like faces, animals, vehicles, and skeletons over generations.
- The experiment replaced the process with vision-language model agents to explore the image space, attempting to decompose the key ingredients needed for open-ended generation/evolution.
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