Toddlers as novelty search algorithms: an AI researcher's sharp analogy
generativist · x · 2026-10-18
Generative AI researcher generativist offers a witty observation: toddlers are novelty search algorithms filling in an archive whose behavior descriptor is unimaginable — and whose quality metric doubles as a proxy for danger, explaining why kids find the risky things you never considered. A neat crossover between quality-diversity optimization and parenting.
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