Sakana AI
· Frontier Labs
The AI Picbreeder Experiment: Can AI agents be creative when nobody tells them what to create?
（＊日本語は英文の後に） In our new GECCO 2026 paper, “In Search of the Ingredients of Open-Endedness: Replicating Picbreeder with Large Vision-Language Models”, in collaboration with MIT and NYU, we revisit Picbreeder, a lost website where people collaboratively evolved images without any predefined objective. Users simply select