Novelty is Not Dead: What Artificial Intelligence Can Teach Us About Discovery - Design 4 Emergence

Or so we thought after our conversation with lead researcher Jeff Clune of the Evolving AI Lab. Because this is d4e, we sought out an unorthodox AI pioneer, and Clune did not disappoint. He's at the leading edge of his field if you go by such things as his output of published papers. Clune stands out because he is trying to teach robots not so much consciousness as sub-consciousness; and he wants to teach that sub-consciousness to evolve, just like ours did. Of course, our choice of what bar to go into typically, at least for most people, emerges from the subconscious.