Sakana AI's Digital Red Queen: LLMs evolve Core War programs in open-ended arms races
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-10
Sakana AI shared an interview with former intern Akarsh Kumar on Machine Learning Street Talk about artificial life as "a very long-term bet on intelligence."
Kumar walks through Sakana's Digital Red Queen research: using LLMs to drive open-ended evolutionary arms races in Core War, plus why evolved networks find structure that SGD misses (work with Kenneth Stanley) and searching the space of possible universes with foundation models. Sakana frames this artificial-life perspective as central to how the lab thinks about future agentic AI.
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