Don't invent faster horses - Prof. Jeff Clune

Two hours with Machine Learning Street Talk on the argument that runs through Clune’s whole career: asking humans to design intelligence is asking for faster horses. Instead, build open-ended, Darwinian search — “Darwin-complete” spaces where any environment can be generated, agents that keep inventing their own challenges, and language models standing in for human judgment about what counts as interesting. The conversation ends where his co-founding of Recursive begins: what it means, and what it risks, to let AI take over AI research itself.