Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned The Myth of the Objective
"What is your ultimate goal - your true objective - when you pick up a book? The authors of this one believe that there may be no objective at all involved, just a diffuse feeling that a book can change the way you look at the world. They may be right." &
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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned The Myth of the Objective
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
Kenneth O. Stanley • Joel Lehman
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned The Myth of the Objective
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Kenneth O. Stanley Department of EECS Computer Science Division University of Central Florida Orlando, FL, USA
Joel Lehman Department of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX, USA
The image on the cover has been used with permission from the University of Central Florida Research Foundation, Inc. It was created using the www.picbreeder.org website of UCFRF. ISBN 978-3-319-15523-4 ISBN 978-3-319-15524-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15524-1 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015932228 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www. springer.com)
To Beth and Bennett KS To my parents JL
Preface
This book was born from a radical idea about artificial intelligence (AI) that unexpectedly grew to be about much more. At first I was thinking only about AI algorithms, programs of concern mainly to computer scientists like me. Usually these algorithms have explicit goals and objectives that they’re driven to achieve. But I began to realize that the algorithms could do amazing things even if they had no explicit objective—maybe even more amazing than the ones that did have an objective. Testing this idea led to some surprising experimental results, some of which are documented in this book. And that’s pretty interesting—if you’re a computer scientist. But then something unusual happened. I started to realize that the insight wasn’t just about algorithms, but also about life. And not just life, but culture, society, how we drive innovation, how we plan for achievement, our interpretation of biology— the list just kept expanding. If you don’t
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