Kenneth Stanley leads new open-endedness team at Lila Sciences, bets it's key to AI-driven discovery
tw_killian · x · 2026-09-11
Open-endedness pioneer Kenneth Stanley announces a new open-endedness team at Lila Sciences, arguing the approach is mission-critical to real scientific discovery, with results to be shared soon. The team's origin story: a batch of "junk" diamond crystals turned out to be exactly what researchers needed — "don't throw out the weird result" is their guiding philosophy.
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