3 papers
cs.AI2026
AI Finds A Way
Aaron Dharna, Cong Lu, Ryan Sullivan +3
Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms frequently learn creative and unexpected solutions, surprising even expert researchers who develop and study them. They often astonish pract…
cs.AI2025
Evolution and The Knightian Blindspot of Machine Learning
Joel Lehman, Elliot Meyerson, Tarek El-Gaaly +2
This paper claims that machine learning (ML) largely overlooks an important facet of general intelligence: robustness to a qualitatively unknown future in an open world. Such robus…
cs.NE2024
Language Model Crossover: Variation through Few-Shot Prompting
Elliot Meyerson, Mark J. Nelson, Herbie Bradley +4
This paper pursues the insight that language models naturally enable an intelligent variation operator similar in spirit to evolutionary crossover. In particular, language models o…