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#177 – Risto Miikkulainen: Neuroevolution and Evolutionary Computation

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Is There a Magic to Creativity?

There's a magic to the creative process like with spot, the Boston Dynamics spot but really any robot that I've ever worked on. It just feels like the similar kind of joy I imagine I would have as a father. Algorithms absolutely can be creative. They can come up with solutions that you don't think about. And those certainly are true with say evolutionary computation discovering solutions. So maybe an example for instance we did this collaboration with MIT Media Lab, Kaleb Harvest Lab where they had a hydroponic food computer called it.

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