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Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents

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  • Haebom

Author

Jenny Zhang, Shengran Hu, Cong Lu, Robert Lange, Jeff Clune

Outline

This paper proposes a 'Darwin-Gödel Machine (DGM)' as a way to overcome the limitations of today's AI systems with fixed structures designed by humans and to automate the development of AI itself. Inspired by Darwin's theory of evolution and open exploration research, DGM is a self-improving system that repeatedly modifies its own code and experimentally verifies each change through coding benchmarks. It maintains an archive of generated coding agents and expands the archive by generating new agents based on existing agents. Through this open exploration, it generates diverse and high-quality agents and explores various exploration paths in parallel. Experimental results show that DGM improves performance from 20.0% to 50.0% on SWE-bench and from 14.2% to 30.7% on Polyglot, significantly outperforming baseline models without self-improvement or open exploration. All experiments were conducted with safety measures such as sandboxing and human supervision.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
Presenting a new approach to AI self-improvement: DGM presents an innovative way to automate the process by which AI improves itself.
Potential to accelerate AI development: DGM’s self-improvement capabilities could dramatically accelerate AI development.
Discovering Diverse Solutions through Open Exploration: DGM’s open exploration strategy can find diverse solutions that go beyond traditional, limited exploration methods.
Verification of Practical Performance Improvement: Our experimental results confirm that the self-improvement ability of DGM leads to practical performance improvements.
Limitations:
Safety challenges: It is difficult to completely guarantee the safety of self-improving AI. Further research is needed to determine whether current safety measures are sufficient in the long term.
Benchmark dependence: The performance improvements of DGM are based on a specific benchmark, so performance may vary on other tasks or environments. Further research is needed to determine generalizability.
Computational resource requirements: DGM may require significant computational resources. More efficient algorithms may need to be developed.
Difficulty in predicting long-term development: It is difficult to predict the long-term development direction and limitations of DGM. Continuous monitoring and research are required.
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