Imagine if, decades from now, a computer spat out a brilliant design for a vehicle so novel that we humans have no choice but to call it an act of imagination. One day, University of Wyoming AI researcher Jeff Clune plans to build this kind of artificially intelligent agent, and he already has the blueprints. Clune calls this kind of agent an “innovation engine,” and while it sounds a little bit like Skynet Jr., it’s really just a clever set-up involving two warring AIs. On one side, there is an evolutionary algorithm which creates endless mutations of an object, image, or design. This is the “artist.” On the other side, a deep neural network (a cluster of virtual nodes designed to mimic, in extreme simplicity, the brain) evaluates which of these mutations is both interesting and functional. This is the “judge.”

Read More at  www.motherboard.vice.com