Agents can be placed into simulated worlds to explore with curiosity as the main motivator, enabling discovery without pre-specified goals—many major inventions were made without the invention in mind, suggesting this is a valuable approach.

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Hannah Fry

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almost no prerequisite to any major invention was made with that invention in mind...dropping agents into these simulated environments and allowing them to explore with sort of curiosity being their main motivator

Source

The future of intelligence | Demis Hassabis (Co-founder and CEO of DeepMind)Google DeepMind
Created: 8/11/2026, 7:32:10 AM

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