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#81 JULIAN TOGELIUS, Prof. KEN STANLEY - AGI, Games, Diversity & Creativity [UNPLUGGED]

Nov 20, 20221 hr 10 minSeason 1Ep. 81
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In this show tonight with Prof. Julian Togelius (NYU) and Prof. Ken Stanley we discuss open-endedness, AGI, game AI and reinforcement learning.  


[Prof Julian Togelius]

https://engineering.nyu.edu/faculty/julian-togelius

https://twitter.com/togelius


[Prof Ken Stanley]

https://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/

https://twitter.com/kenneth0stanley


TOC:

[00:00:00] Introduction

[00:01:07] AI and computer games

[00:12:23] Intelligence

[00:21:27] Intelligence Explosion

[00:25:37] What should we be aspiring towards?

[00:29:14] Should AI contribute to culture?

[00:32:12] On creativity and open-endedness

[00:36:11] RL overfitting

[00:44:02] Diversity preservation

[00:51:18] Empiricism vs rationalism , in gradient descent the data pushes you around

[00:55:49] Creativity and interestingness (does complexity / information increase)

[01:03:20] What does a population give us?

[01:05:58] Emergence / generalisation snobbery


References;

[Hutter/Legg] Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence

https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3329


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._J._Good

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_machine


[Chollet] Impossibility of intelligence explosion

https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-intelligence-explosion-5be4a9eda6ec


[Alex Irpan] - RL is hard

https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html

https://nethackchallenge.com/

Map elites

https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04909


Covariance Matrix Adaptation for the Rapid Illumination of Behavior Space

https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.02400


[Stanley] - Why greatness cannot be planned

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Greatness-Cannot-Planned-Objective/dp/3319155237


[Lehman/Stanley] Abandoning Objectives: Evolution through the Search for Novelty Alone

https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~meeden/DevelopmentalRobotics/lehman_ecj11.pdf

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