
Episode 24: Jack Parker-Holder, DeepMind, on open-endedness, evolving agents and environments, online adaptation, and offline learning
Generally Intelligent
How Do You Encode the Phenotype of Architectures?
I don't actually know how you make the search space unbounded for architectures. What you could do is sort of increase your architecture and then periodically trim it down to get maybe 90% to 100% performance, but with a drastically smaller architecture. And then if you keep doing this, maybe you end up with something that like fills the full capacity. That's really the beautiful thing about this community is that every time you're working with one problem has some blockers, someone else might solve that problem. You can watch YouTube videos of tennis matches and then generate sort of synthetic ones and actually play as the characters. So you can make Serena versus Serena. But that seems like something that looks