news flash from OpenAI: evolution works!

[Ben Goertzel]

In the "Well, duhhh" department -- OpenAI finds evolution distributed
strategies outperform neural nets for reinforcement learning in test
problems,

https://blog.openai.com/evolution-strategies/

--
Ben Goertzel, PhD
http://goertzel.org

“Our first mothers and fathers … were endowed with intelligence; they
saw and instantly they could see far … they succeeded in knowing all
that there is in the world. When they looked, instantly they saw all
around them, and they contemplated in turn the arch of heaven and the
round face of the earth. … Great was their wisdom …. They were able to
know all....

But the Creator and the Maker did not hear this with pleasure. … ‘Are
they not by nature simple creatures of our making? Must they also be
gods? … What if they do not reproduce and multiply?’

Then the Heart of Heaven blew mist into their eyes, which clouded
their sight as when a mirror is breathed upon. Their eyes were covered
and they could see only what was close, only that was clear to them.”

— Popol Vuh (holy book of the ancient Mayas)

[Andi]

Hello, Ben
this is work from Andrej Karpathy. I admire him very much!
Do you know him,Ben?
Did you ever speak about your ideas (knowledge) with him?
My feeling is that this could be very satisfactury and fruitfull for both of you.
And maybe he could contribute to open cog  by playing with parts of it..
He is a hard working one with a big high quality output.....

[Ben Goertzel]

I don't know Andrej Karpathy personally but I'm familiar with a bunch
of his work, definitely he's a top-class researcher! perhaps we will
collaborate in future...

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