MIT/Sakana AI researcher on artificial life, evolution beyond SGD
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-09
ML Street Talk interviews Akarsh Kumar (MIT CSAIL, Sakana AI) on artificial life: searching the space of possible universes with foundation models, why evolved networks find structure SGD misses (with Kenneth Stanley), and LLMs evolving Core War programs.
Related event: MIT and Sakana AI Researcher on Searching Artificial Life(2 posts)→
More from Research
- Jensen Huang's foundation donates ~7M hours of compute to UW Institute for Protein Design — XFreeze · 2026-10-09
- Turing Institute unveils AI model for autonomous space domain awareness — turinginst · 2026-10-09
- Stanford CS336 posts 18 free lectures building LLMs from scratch, Triton to RLHF — techNmak · 2026-10-09
- evilsocket: prompt injection detection benchmarks built on mislabeled data — evilsocket · 2026-10-09
- Neural Radiance Caching variant speeds up specular lighting in real-time path tracing — ssh4net · 2026-10-09
- ABC releases open stack for scalable behavior cloning with real and sim teleoperation data — rsasaki0109 · 2026-10-09