Kenneth Stanley Novelty Search: a weapon to fight against the status quo; Artificial Intelligence Researcher
The Vance Crowe Podcast
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Novelty Search, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Novelty Search is actually the name of an algorithm, but I don't want that to be distracting. Novelty Search was about a realization that we had, which we found out because of doing experiments with certain kinds of algorithms,. The best way to achieve something is to not be trying to achieve it. It almost sounds like Zen or something like that. But we found it to be true in a lot of experiments at first with computers. Later we saw how this connects to actually doing things in the real world.
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