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The speaker views open-endedness problems as somewhat similar to unsolved mathematical problems.

Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026

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“i think with open-endedness problems like i view them as somewhat similar to even like unsolved math problems maybe that's a weird way of of framing it but like i think a lot of the techniques in terms of like how people like approach them are kind of the same like evolutionary search is like very similar to just launching swarms of agents and hoping that like they come up with like an interesting and this is what”
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