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Jeff Clune
@jeffclune
Co-founder, Recursive. Professor, CS, U. British Columbia. CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute. | ML, AI, deep RL, deep learning, AI-Generating Algorithms (AI-GAs)
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    Jeff Clune
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    May 13
    Thrilled to share that we founded Recursive to create AI that safely conducts experiments on how to improve itself in an open-ended process of endless, automated scientific discovery. As I wrote in my 2019 AI-generating algorithms paper, this will likely be the fastest path to
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    Jeff Clune
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    Sep 18, 2025
    At OpenAI I remember when we were excited to see a video model make a blurry, pixelated ping pong ball bounce up and down realistically for more than a second. "It learned physics!" That was ~4 years ago. Still think we're hitting a wall?
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    Luma
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    Sep 18, 2025
    This is Ray3. The world’s first reasoning video model, and the first to generate studio-grade HDR. Now with an all-new Draft Mode for rapid iteration in creative workflows, and state of the art physics and consistency. Available now for free in Dream Machine.
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    Jeff Clune
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    Jan 6, 2020
    I am extremely excited to announce (1) I've joined OpenAI to lead a large-scale effort into AI-generating Algorithms research, & (2) I'll be an Associate CS Professor at U. British Columbia in 2021, where I will continue to lead the OpenAI project. Both are dreams come true! 1/2
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    Jeff Clune
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    Oct 29, 2024
    I literally cannot conceive of why anyone would vote for Trump. I recognize that's a failure of my theory of mind, but there it is. It's simply unimaginable to me that anyone could choose him knowing everything we know. To the rest of the world, I'm sorry.
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    Jeff Clune
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    Feb 23, 2023
    Excited to announce I have joined DeepMind as a Senior Research Advisor! I will be working with many fantastic people there on AI-generating algorithms & open-ended learning, one of many areas where @DeepMind is a leader. My roles at UBC & the Vector Institute will stay the same.
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    Jeff Clune
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    Jun 23, 2022
    Introducing Video PreTraining (VPT): it learns complex behaviors by watching (pretraining on) vast amounts of online videos. On Minecraft, it produces the first AI capable of crafting diamond tools, which takes humans over 20 minutes (24,000 actions) 🧵👇openai.com/blog/vpt
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    Jeff Clune
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    Nov 18, 2024
    The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours. - Amos Tversky
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    Jeff Clune
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    Mar 13, 2018
    My favorite example of when AI surprised us, the scientists wielding it. A corner case in our algo challenged AI to learn to walk without touching its feet to the ground. Many more in arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453… from @joelbot3000with @jb_mouret @CULLYAntoine Cully et al Nature 2015
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    Jeff Clune
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    Feb 24, 2021
    Thrilled to share that "First return, then explore" appears today in Nature! Go-Explore solves all unsolved Atari games*, ending a long quest by the field that began in Nature. Led by @AdrienLE & @Joost_Huizinga w @joelbot3000 @kenneth0stanley & myself. nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/
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    Jeff Clune
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    Aug 19, 2024
    Can AI agents design better AI agents? We describe a newly forming research area "Automated Design of Agentic Systems" (ADAS) that aims to automatically design powerful agents & a new method where a meta agent invents new agents by programming them in code. Led by @shengranhu 🧵
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    Jeff Clune
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    Jan 8, 2019
    Introducing POET: it generates its own increasingly complex, diverse training environments & solves them. It automatically creates a learning curricula & training data, & potentially innovates endlessly! eng.uber.com/poet-open-ende… By @ruiwang2uiuc w/ @joelbot3000 & @kenneth0stanley
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    Jeff Clune
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    May 30, 2025
    Excited to introduce the Darwin Gödel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents. We harness the power of open-ended algorithms to search for agentic systems that get better at coding, including improving their own code. It’s the Automated Design of Agentic Systems
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    Sakana AI
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    May 30, 2025
    Introducing The Darwin Gödel Machine: AI that improves itself by rewriting its own code sakana.ai/dgm The Darwin Gödel Machine (DGM) is a self-improving agent that can modify its own code. Inspired by evolution, we maintain an expanding lineage of agent variants,
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    Jeff Clune
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    Jun 2, 2023
    Introducing Thought Cloning: AI agents learn to *think* & act like humans by imitating the thoughts & actions of humans thinking out loud while acting, enhancing performance, efficiency, generalization, AI Safety & Interpretability. Led by @shengranhu arxiv.org/abs/2306.00323 1/5
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    Jeff Clune
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    Jan 3, 2020
    Today is my last day at Uber. It's been a dream to have our startup acquired by Uber &, with wonderful colleagues, create Uber AI Labs. I'm proud of our work, eg. Go-Explore, POET, AI-GAs, GTNs, ANML, Differentiable Plasticity, Backpropamine, Deep Neuroevolution, PPGNs, etc. 1/3
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