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104. Ken Stanley - AI without objectives

Towards Data Science

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Is the Universe Really Optimizing for Novelty?

If i really put you in a situation where the only way for you to continue is to continue to do novel things, you are going to have to learn about the universe. And evolution was the beginning of that. Evolution is evolution on earth, not genetic algarisms, but evolution itself,. like natural evolution, itis a very isa divergent process. It's not an objective convergent process. All divergent processes have this property. What happens is that you have to learn About the universe to continue to produce novel things em and so like, if you're in a body, like a biped robot, you can have to learn how to walk. Youre lerning about

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