EP130 Ken Stanley on Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
The Jim Rutt Show
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How Does a Novelty Search Work?
The algorithm works by exhausting things that don't work. It has sort of this implicit drive away from things it's already done or already tried towards somewhere else, somewhere more blue sky. And so if you then try to just reward it for how close it gets to the goal, which is just like what we talked about a little while ago in terms of deception,. Well yeah, you run into a deceptive problem. But as a fact, it's much better to reward it for novelty, for doing something novel than to rewarded it for getting close to the end of the maze. So just another demonstration of this principle that sometimes is just way better to follow the path of interestingness.
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