Can we train AI to be creative? One lab is testing ideas

Two new efforts use large language models to help AI decide what is worth exploring

AI game knocking over blocks gif

A new system called OMNI-EPIC generates new and “interesting” tasks, such as destroying a tower of blocks, and trains AI agents to complete them.

M. Faldor et al./arXiv.org 2024

Human know-how derives in part from our nose for novelty — we’re curious creatures, whether looking around corners or testing scientific hypotheses.