... This week, Clune’s lab revealed its latest open-ended learning project: an AI program that invents and builds AI agents. The AI-designed agents outperform human-designed agents in some tasks, such as math and reading comprehension. The next step will be devising ways to prevent such a system from generating agents that misbehave. “It's potentially dangerous,” Clune says of this work. “We need to get it right, but I think it's possible.”
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