Jeff Clune

AI researcher known for work on open-ended and quality-diversity search — co-creator (with Jean-Baptiste Mouret) of MAP-Elites (2015) and a leading figure in the broader open-endedness lineage (POET and related environment-generating algorithms), with past appointments spanning academia, Uber AI Labs, and OpenAI.

Matters to this vault as the co-originator of MAP-Elites, the quality-diversity algorithm Microcosmos's Experiment 4 runs directly to search for diverse locomotion strategies — placing him in the same open-endedness neighborhood as Microcosmos co-author Kenneth O. Stanley.

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