Kenneth Stanley
@kenneth0stanley
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SVP of Open-Endedness @LilaSciences. Prev: Maven CEO, Lead@OpenAI, Uber AI, prof@UCF. NEAT,HyperNEAT,novelty search, POET. Book:Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
San Francisco, CA
Joined March 2016
Important announcement (with job opportunities!): I’m thrilled to share that I just joined @LilaSciences as SVP of Open-Endedness! Lila is a new name in the AI space, but one you will be hearing a lot from. Their unique mission to pursue Scientific Superintelligence could not
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RT @rickasaurus: This book articulates something I’ve fought for my whole career: goals and team metrics lead to mediocre outcomes. Actuall….
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Carl Jung made a point long ago that both foreshadows fractured entangled representation (FER) and offers a thought-provoking critique of modern ML in general: "Beware of unearned wisdom." (I'd update it to "unearned knowledge" for AI today.). If the way that you acquire.
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RT @chrisbarber: I asked @kenneth0stanley, @finbarrtimbers, and @JeffDean: "What might help society adapt to future AI progress?". @kenneth….
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A great honor, I’m humbled!.
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. Both English and Japanese editions now found a home @SakanaAILabs library ✨
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It’s a physical, real-time Picbreeder!.
Just setting up my art exhibition for the week in MIT's Stata center (4th floor, 32-G409) . Come play with a visual modular synthesizer built from a physical compositional neural net. Plug cables, twist knobs and shape amazing patterns in real time!!
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RT @SakanaAILabs: What if we could evolve AI models like organisms in nature, letting them compete, mate, and combine their strengths to pr….
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RT @NeuralBricolage: perhaps that really turned into my artistic goal - rescuing weirdness from the flood of optimization - one potteryGAN….
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RT @togelius: Can large language models play simple arcade games? Kind of. Sometimes. Slowly, and not as well as a simple search algorithm.….
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Sad news. Margaret Boden’s book The Creative Mind influenced my thinking on creativity early on. Her notion of transformational creativity remains relevant today. Of all the things people knock LLMs for lacking, transformational creativity is the true prize.
Obituary: Margaret Boden (1936-2025) cognitive scientist who explored how machines might emulate human imagination.
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RT @Nature: Obituary: Margaret Boden (1936-2025) cognitive scientist who explored how machines might emulate human imagination. https://t.c….
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Nature - Pioneering artificial-intelligence scholar, whose influential work bridged cognitive science, philosophy and computer science.
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RT @camenduru: I started studying Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis….
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Much of the excitement in modern AI is driven by the observation that scaling up existing systems leads to better performance. But does better performance necessarily imply better internal...
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.@jim_rutt took me on a real deep dive into the Fractured Entangled Representation (FER) Hypothesis on his podcast. Worth a listen if you’re looking for more on this topic:.
I talked with @kenneth0stanley about the Fractured Entanglement Representation hypothesis in deep learning neural networks. We discussed open-endedness in AI systems & evolution, the Picbreeder experiment & its significance, the objective paradox of.
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RT @lchen915: Self-Questioning Language Models: LLMs that learn to generate their own questions and answers via asymmetric self-play RL. T….
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benchmarkmaxxing = the objective paradox = the myth of the objective = Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned = the security blanket of objectives = what’s happening now is a predictable outcome of objective obsession.
I'm noticing that due to (I think?) a lot of benchmarkmaxxing on long horizon tasks, LLMs are becoming a little too agentic by default, a little beyond my average use case. For example in coding, the models now tend to reason for a fairly long time, they have an inclination to.
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RT @_TechyBen: @VictorTaelin Sometimes. Sometimes I wish my algorithm also gave me the lottery numbers. But for now, I will be content wi….
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RT @jchencxh: A type of the best work unify tip-of-the-tongue thoughts everyone has into one coherent mental model. FER is one of them.
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Those who intuit something is lacking in LLMs struggle to pinpoint the gap beyond inadequate metaphors like “stochastic parrot” or “glorified autocomplete.” What you’re groping for is fractured entangled representation (FER). That’s the concrete crux of your slippery intuitions.
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