I’m Alejandro Hernandez Artiles, an ELLIS PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, co-supervised by Iyad Rahwan and Bernhard Schölkopf.
I believe science and art are evolutionary processes, where ideas are mutated, shared and selected over time by a population of agents. Therefore, my research explores open-ended AI for cultural and scientific discovery. Mainly inspired by what we call cultural evolution, I develop methods that help AI systems continually explore original, coherent ideas in domains without clear reward signals, like early-stage scientific ideation.
Outside research, I enjoy creative writing, literature, cinema, video games, and opera.
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