Creative AI Through Evolutionary Computation
This proposes a foundational shift in AI towards creativity, potentially impacting all of ML/AI by enabling new solution discovery.
The paper argues that evolutionary computation is well-suited for creative AI by exploring large, complex search spaces to generate novel solutions, and suggests it could become the next major paradigm like deep learning.
The main power of artificial intelligence is not in modeling what we already know, but in creating solutions that are new. Such solutions exist in extremely large, high-dimensional, and complex search spaces. Population-based search techniques, i.e. variants of evolutionary computation, are well suited to finding them. These techniques are also well positioned to take advantage of large-scale parallel computing resources, making creative AI through evolutionary computation the likely "next deep learning".