Aaron Dharna (@_aadharna) 's Twitter Profile
Aaron Dharna

@_aadharna

PhD student @UBC_CS. Interested in reinforcement learning, generative models, open-endedness, and the intersection of games and machine learning.

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linkhttps://github.com/aadharna calendar_today07-06-2017 17:06:34

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Continuing from x.com/_aadharna/stat… Here's a classic from 1997(!) that got included in The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution by Dr. Risto Miikkulainen where an agent playing 5-in-a-row tic-tac-toe on an infinite board won by crashing the programs of its opponents

Continuing from x.com/_aadharna/stat… 

Here's a classic from 1997(!) that got included in The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution by Dr. Risto Miikkulainen where an agent playing 5-in-a-row tic-tac-toe on an infinite board won by crashing the programs of its opponents
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Our soft deadline (March 1st) to gauge initial community interest is coming quick. We've gotten some cool submissions and I can't wait to see what else is out there. I know some people are still writing up anecdotes, so fret not, this isn't a hard cutoff x.com/jeffclune/stat…

Jeff Clune (@jeffclune) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What are your favorite examples of AI outsmarting us, being creative, surprising us, escaping the confines we try to place it in, hacking the reward function, etc? We want to make sure to capture as many great ones as possible. Please share a quick summary here in the replies.

Aaron Dharna (@_aadharna) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is a great example of some of the types of stories we're looking for in our AI Finds A Way call: jeffclune.com/media/shared/A…

Sakana AI (@sakanaailabs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Introducing The AI Scientist: The world’s first AI system for automating scientific research and open-ended discovery! sakana.ai/ai-scientist/ From ideation, writing code, running experiments and summarizing results, to writing entire papers and conducting peer-review, The AI

Introducing The AI Scientist: The world’s first AI system for automating scientific research and open-ended discovery!

sakana.ai/ai-scientist/

From ideation, writing code, running experiments and summarizing results, to writing entire papers and conducting peer-review, The AI
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Our work OMNI-EPIC (w/ Maxence Faldor, Antoine Cully, and @Jeffclune) will have an ✨oral presentation✨ at #NeurIPS2024 workshops (IMOL Workshop | NeurIPS 2024 Sun 10:00, West meeting room 217 - 219). Please come visit us!

Our work OMNI-EPIC (w/ <a href="/maxencefaldor/">Maxence Faldor</a>, <a href="/CULLYAntoine/">Antoine Cully</a>, and @Jeffclune) will have an ✨oral presentation✨ at #NeurIPS2024 workshops (<a href="/IMOLNeurIPS2024/">IMOL Workshop | NeurIPS 2024</a> Sun 10:00, West meeting room 217 - 219). Please come visit us!
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Our in-progress work Quality-Diversity Self-Play (w/ Cong Lu and @Jeffclune) will have a poster presentation at #NeurIPS2024 workshops (IMOL Workshop | NeurIPS 2024 Sunday West meeting room 217 - 219 and OpenworldAgents Sunday East Meeting Room 1-3, Foyer). Please come visit us!

Our in-progress work Quality-Diversity Self-Play (w/ <a href="/cong_ml/">Cong Lu</a> and @Jeffclune) will have a poster presentation at #NeurIPS2024 workshops (<a href="/IMOLNeurIPS2024/">IMOL Workshop | NeurIPS 2024</a> Sunday West meeting room 217 - 219 and OpenworldAgents Sunday East Meeting Room 1-3, Foyer). Please come visit us!
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Really excited to share our recent work combining open-ended foundation model innovation with the compeititive dynamics of self-play!! One of the ingredients towards creativity explosion? Led by Aaron Dharna, done together with Jeff Clune 🚀