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Jeff Clune: Genetic Algorithms, Quality-Diversity, Curiosity

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Quality Diversity Algorithms - Is That Really Cool?

A new family of algorithms that are called quality diversity algorithms. And the idea here is that traditional machine learning and optimization, you give it a problem and it tries to come back with the best solution. So in this nature paper, when we did it said, all right, we want robots that can walk in a huge variety of different ways. This algorithm came back with like 13,000 high quality yet very different gates.

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