Risto Miikkulainen is a Professor of Computer Science at UT Austin and AVP of Evolutionary Intelligence at Cognizant AI Labs. His current research focuses on methods and applications of neuroevolution, as well as neural network models of natural language processing and vision; he is an author of over 450 articles in these research areas.
❶ Evolutionary Computation
0:00 Highlights
3:30 Risto's Background
7:37 Evolutionary Computation vs Neuroevolutionary Computation
11:03 What selection pressures included in Evolutionary Computation?
15:25 Explore Exploit Tradeoff (EETO)
16:23 Evolutionary Computation (population) vs Reinforcement Learning (individual)
20:38 Which problems are best suited for Evolutionary Computation?
24:10 Basil doesn't want to sleep!
28:30 Solutions sometimes get stuck with Gradient Descent... why not reward novelty instead?
❷ Neuroevolutionary Computation
30:50 The Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT) algorithm
34:00 Why are topologies required at all?
39:25 Neuroevolutionary computation useful for building architectures, then another algorithm might take over
40:40 Programs that followed NEAT... DeepNEAT, CoDeepNEAT, LEAF, HyperNEAT [indirect encoding]
❸ A.I. Creativity
45:40 Creative AI Through Evolutionary Computation: Principles (Nonpharma Covid-19 interventions) & Surrogates
55:02 The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities
56:25 Robot arm (Oscar-6) with disabled motor... evolution finds a way!
1:00:00 Is there a rigorous measure for creativity?
1:00:55 Most surprising findings in Risto's career? Space shuttle jetpacks...
❹ Lessons Learned
1:02:18 Any meta-truths or patterns found in Risto's research? Evolution is an opportunistic tinkerer... Othello!
1:06:42 Any lessons from your research you use in your day-to-day life?
1:08:02 Risto's co-authored poker papers
1:11:58 Won Bot Prize Reward for Turing Test, Unreal Tournament 2004 Competition (2012)
1:18:10 Neuro Evolving Robotic Operatives (NERO) game
1:22:00 Within NERO, any optimal strategies?
1:23:45 What do you believe that you can't prove?
1:29:45 Does evolutionary computation inform biological evolution? Hyenas stealing from lions
1:31:50 Major transition milestones in evolution
1:33:25 Any patterns for how structures self-organize?
1:34:05 How do mass extinctions accelerate evolution?
1:38:13 Favorite Star Trek episode?
1:41:10 Favorite authors?
1:42:50 Any other favorite media?
1:44:07 If you could give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be?
1:45:23 Where can people find more of your work?
🚩Links to Risto 🚩
Website: www.cs.utexas.edu/users/risto/
Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives (NERO): nn.cs.utexas.edu/nero/index.php
Surprising discoveries by AI | Risto Miikkulainen and Lex Fridman • Surprising discoveries...
Creative AI Through Evolutionary Computation: Principles and Examples (Miikkulainen 2021) link.springer.com/article/10....
Evolving Obstacle Avoidance Behavior in a Robot Arm (Moriarty & Miikkulainen 1996) nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/pa...
🚾 Works Cited
Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Space Seed" (1967)
Getting started with Reinforcement Learning (Ippolito 2021) towardsdatascience.com/gettin...
Watch This Software Learn To Play Super Mario World Better Than You Can (Liszewski 2015) www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/06/wa...
Evolutionary Super Mario (Olsen 2015) www.jeppehmedh.dk/projects.php...
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes
from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03453.pdf
Botprize Video (Sean Williams 2009) • Botprize Video
NERO 2.0 Trailer (Igor Karpov 2011) • NERO 2.0 Trailer
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Egmont Overture by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/...
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1 июн 2024