Kenneth Stanley
SVP of Open-Endedness at Lila Sciences. In the past: Maven CEO, Lead at OpenAI, head of basic/core research at Uber AI, professor at UCF.
Stuff I helped invent: NEAT, CPPNs, HyperNEAT, novelty search, POET, Picbreeder.
Book: Why Greatness Cannot Be Plann
- Reposted by Kenneth Stanley🚀 $235M Series A fuels our mission to build the world’s first scientific superintelligence to accelerate breakthroughs in life, chemical & materials sciences. Come build with us: bit.ly/LilaCareers
- Could a major opportunity to improve representation in deep learning be hiding in plain sight? Check out our new position paper: Questioning Representational Optimism in Deep Learning: The Fractured Entangled Representation Hypothesis. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.11581
- Reposted by Kenneth StanleyI highly recommend working with @kennethstanley.bsky.social. 10 out 10 would do again
- I’m thrilled to share that I just joined @LilaSciences as SVP of Open-Endedness! You can join my team here: For Research Scientist: job-boards.greenhouse.io/lila/jobs/78... For Research Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/lila/jobs/78...
- Reposted by Kenneth StanleyYour chance to work with one of the all time great minds in science! 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
- I’m thrilled to share that I just joined @LilaSciences as SVP of Open-Endedness! You can join my team here: For Research Scientist: job-boards.greenhouse.io/lila/jobs/78... For Research Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/lila/jobs/78...
- I’m thrilled to share that I just joined @LilaSciences as SVP of Open-Endedness! You can join my team here: For Research Scientist: job-boards.greenhouse.io/lila/jobs/78... For Research Engineer: job-boards.greenhouse.io/lila/jobs/78...
- Learn more about Lila: www.lila.ai Lila Blog Post: www.lila.ai/news/join-ou... NYT article on Lila: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/t...
- New AGI benchmark proposal: instead of giving the AI a hard test like AIME, have the AI come up with a corresponding hard test of its own (and answer key), and then give that test to human students of the right level. Was it a good test with novel questions?
- Not only will this benchmark help us understand the AI’s human-level creative abilities, but it will eventually save real human effort - if it succeeds then much less need for the committees who write these tests!
- Reposted by Kenneth StanleyKen has arrived! kennethstanley.bsky.social
- Reposted by Kenneth StanleySomehow makes sense that a place called "Bluesky" should be friendly to open-endedness!
- Now that @jeffclune.bsky.social and @joelbot3000.bsky.social are here, time for an Open-Endedness starter pack. go.bsky.app/MdVxrtDat://did:plc:6ng5c2li4x2a2h4svclv76z4/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lazblsf4z72k
