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Joel Lehman: Open-Endedness and Evolution through Large Models

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Is There a Synergy Between Language Models and Evolution?

I want to segue over to this very recent exciting paper you had Evolution Through Large Models and I think that the the survey paper on your evolution kind of provides the seeds for a few different ideas. The idea that researchers in the open-endedness space while they've come up with algorithms that begin to produce interesting behavior there does seem to be this problem of at some point there is a kind of convergence and you don't continue to see evolution and behaviors. So we seem to not be at a place where we have what I believe you terms strong open-endeds this idea of just continual evolution and complexification of behavior so can you tell me a little bit about the Evolution Through Large models

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