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An ‘AI Scientist’ Is Inventing and Running Its Own Experiments
Letting programs learn through “open-ended” experimentation may unlock remarkable new capabilities, as well as new risks.
At first glance, a recent batch of research papers produced by a prominent artificial intelligence lab at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver might not seem that notable. Another recent project from Clune’s lab used this approach to let AI programs dream up the code that allows virtual characters to do all sorts of things within a Roblox-like world. A report posted this month by Air Street Capital, an investment firm, highlights the potential of Clune’s work to develop more powerful and reliable AI agents, or programs that autonomously perform useful tasks on computers.
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