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by teabee89 3127 days ago
I highly recommend this talk "Greatness cannot be planned: the Myth of the Objective" by Kenneth Stanley: he created picbreeder.org (evolutionary art platform) and realized that if an interesting state is set as an objective, then it is extremely hard to reach it from the initial state with AI algorithms, because you need to move away sometimes a lot, from local optima.
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The notion of local optima is centuries older than the invention of the first .org