The AI Picbreeder Experiment: In Search of Automatic Open-Endedness
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We replace Picbreeder's human users with AI (large Vision-Language Models), and ask which ingredients let AI search open-endedly the way people do.
This page requires Javascript. Please enable it to view the website. Best Paper (Complex Systems), GECCO 2026. Jul 6 2026 * Work done during an internship or residency at Sakana AI. Can AI agents be creative? It's a question on the lips and fingertips of many. Sure, AI is the new medium, but could it ever be the one making the message? We ask whether the agents we use today as tools might be re-purposed to spontaneously speak among themselves. The end result would be a model organism of cultural production. What should we ask of the agents to make this real? The tension is that we…
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