Jeff Clune opens Kempner seminar series on open-ended, AI-generating algorithms
jeffclune · x · 2026-10-29
The Kempner Institute hosted Jeff Clune (UBC) to open this year's seminar series on his work on open-ended and AI-generating algorithms. Slides frame "the AI scientific revolution will be driven by open-ended and AI-generating algorithms," covering endlessly innovative processes like evolution and human culture, and how to make algorithms worth running for a billion years. Recording is available online.
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