Open-ended evolution with true novelty on a computer is the holy grail
fkasummer · x · 2026-10-22
Commenting on open-ended evolution research, the author argues that any computer evidence of open-ended evolution producing true novelty would be holy grail material, while trivial pretty evolution demos without emergent semantics are plentiful and uninteresting.
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